From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57818 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Old news keeps coming back. Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:23:57 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86hdtszyv9.fsf@ID-110038.user.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086279871 376 80.91.224.253 (3 Jun 2004 16:24:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6359@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 03 18:24:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVv0w-0002Au-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:24:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVv0o-0001AK-00; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:24:14 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVv0l-0001AF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:24:11 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BVv0i-0007Ce-9X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985CE3A0213 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:24:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVv0e-0007yg-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:24:04 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:24:04 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:24:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TuNQFrp5itOHGG+M0tES3V4uBXM= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57818 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57818 raphael.berbain@free.fr (Rapha=EBl 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.