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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > > I dunno.  Let's have a vote:  ~/.netrc or, uhm, ~/.authinforc as the
> > > default file?
> > 
> > Why can't it be a emacs variable?  It seems more natural to me.
> 
> It is a variable (`nntp-netrc-file'), but the question is what it
> should default to.

Sorry I wasn't clear -- I meant why can't the contents of that file be
a Emacs variable?  As I understood it, it was meant to store passwords
for NNTP, I don't really see the need for yet another dot-file.