Re: Old news keeps coming back.

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

raphael.berbain@free.fr (Raphaël Berbain) writes:

>> My gnus-agent-synchronize-flags value has its default value of nil.
>> Should I suppose that I need to set this to true.
>
> Setting it to t solved the issue for me.  However, the documentation
> is misleading/out of sync:  It says the default value for g-a-s-f is
> 'ask, whereas it is now nil.  Also, it appears in the Agent and IMAP
> node, while it now seems relevant to nntp as well.

Yes, it was changed to nil only recently.  I think we should change it
back to 'ask.  I don't know what motivated the change.

> So the questions: Does anybody know why Lars changed the default
> g-a-s-f value to nil ?  What is this nntp marks stuff anyway ?  Marks
> w/ imap, I get it, but I basically can't write anything on the nntp
> servers I use.  Why does Gnus even try to synchronize marks with
> nntp ?

nntp.el write the marks to ~/News/nntp somewhere, so you can rsync
them (or something) between different Gnus installations and have
things work.