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From: Raymond Scholz <ray-2005@zonix.de>
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Subject: Re: Server offline, loosing all subscriptions and marks
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· On Jul 31 2005, Raymond Scholz <ray-2005@zonix.de> wrote:

> Hi, recently news.gmane.org was down and I lost all subscriptions of
> gmane.* groups.  I'd have expected the gmane.* groups still listed in
> the Group buffer with a "*" for the article count.  But they were
> simply gone and with them all the marks.
>
> I didn't start Gnus with gnus-no-server nor hit C-g during startup.
>
> gnus-agent is t, nntp-marks-is-evil is t too, but news.gmane.org isn't
> agentized.

I did some further testing on this.  Setting gnus-agent to nil didn't
help.  But I noticed that only groups are affected, that are
subscribed via the server buffer.

Still no idea why Gnus is forgetting everything about these groups
when the news server carrying them goes offline :-/

Cheers, Ray
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