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<jari.aalto@poboxes.com> (Jari Aalto+list.ding) writes:

>     So a simple Write/Read Group parameter data to a file would
>     be fine for now. A Map-through-groups toplevel function would
>     be next step.
> 
>     I also move data between several Emasc/Gnus in different sites, so
>     exporting, importing Group/Server data would be nice.

I think a cleaner way to keep several Gnus configurations synchronized
(it seems as this is the problem you're trying to solve) would be to
use ACAP. This wouldn't synchronize localy stored mail of course, but
you could use IMAP instead.

http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/acap/

The ACAP protocol is much like the IMAP protocol, most of the code can
be shared between them.