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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Aargh!  Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
Date: 20 Nov 1997 10:12:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigiutovsif.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)

Every time I accidentally start up the netscape news/mail reader
(e.g. by inadvertently clicking on a mailto: URL), it creates a
`.newsrc-bagan.srce.hr' file in my home directory, `bagan.srce.hr'
being my news server.

This always f*ks up Gnus, which thinks this file should take
precedence over my normal `.newsrc.eld' (I don't save normal `.newsrc' 
at all.)  This is highly annoying, because when I startup Gnus next
time, I get an ugly buffer with no topics and no group levels, and I
think of a catastrophe every time.

Can this somehow be turned off?  Couldn't Gnus be made to ignore
`.newsrc-foo' files?

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it."                                    -- Donald Knuth


             reply	other threads:[~1997-11-20  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-11-20  9:12 Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-11-20 11:10 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-11-20 11:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-11-20 11:23   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-20 14:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-11-20 15:35   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love

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