* Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
@ 1997-11-20 9:12 Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-20 11:10 ` Andy Eskilsson
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1997-11-20 9:12 UTC (permalink / 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?
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 9:12 Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo Hrvoje Niksic
@ 1997-11-20 11:10 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-11-20 11:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
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From: Andy Eskilsson @ 1997-11-20 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
In the preferences you can tell Nets^H^H^H^HMozilla to save the news
stuff somewhere else, for example ~/.netscape/, can be found somewhere
like preferences->Mail and News->Groups Server, discussion groups
(news) directory.
/andy
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 9:12 Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo Hrvoje Niksic
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
1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love
3 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kai Grossjohann @ 1997-11-20 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On 20 Nov 1997, Hrvoje Niksic said:
Hrvoje> Every time I accidentally start up the netscape news/mail
Hrvoje> reader (e.g. by inadvertently clicking on a mailto: URL), it
Hrvoje> creates a `.newsrc-bagan.srce.hr' file in my home directory,
Hrvoje> `bagan.srce.hr' being my news server.
Why don't you just rename all .newsrc* files to
.newsrc-bagan.srce.hr*? Gnus will read them, Netscape won't create a
new one, Bob's your uncle. No?
kai
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 11:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
@ 1997-11-20 11:23 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1997-11-20 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> >>>>> On 20 Nov 1997, Hrvoje Niksic said:
>
> Hrvoje> Every time I accidentally start up the netscape news/mail
> Hrvoje> reader (e.g. by inadvertently clicking on a mailto: URL), it
> Hrvoje> creates a `.newsrc-bagan.srce.hr' file in my home directory,
> Hrvoje> `bagan.srce.hr' being my news server.
>
> Why don't you just rename all .newsrc* files to
> .newsrc-bagan.srce.hr*? Gnus will read them, Netscape won't create a
> new one, Bob's your uncle. No?
No. I *want* my `.newsrc.eld' to be called just that. There are
host aliases like `news.carnet.hr', etc. I want to just use the
standard name, without the extension.
The named extension is stupid anyway, as my .newsrc.eld contains a
bunch of mail and foreign groups.
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
"A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even
as its crockishness appalls."
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 9:12 Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-20 11:10 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-11-20 11:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
@ 1997-11-20 14:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-11-20 15:35 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love
3 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Karl Kleinpaste @ 1997-11-20 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> Can this somehow be turned off? Couldn't Gnus be made to ignore
> `.newsrc-foo' files?
(setq gnus-startup-file "~/Mail/.private/.newsrc")
Generally, bury everything (such as nnmail's ID cache) in such a
directory. Then you don't have random folks snooping around in
.newsrc* to learn your reading habits, either.
$ chmod 700 ~/Mail/.private # for normal UNIXish filesystems, or
$ fs sa ~/Mail/.private -clear YourID rlidwka # for $HOMEs in AFS.
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 14:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
@ 1997-11-20 15:35 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1997-11-20 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > Can this somehow be turned off? Couldn't Gnus be made to ignore
> > `.newsrc-foo' files?
>
> (setq gnus-startup-file "~/Mail/.private/.newsrc")
>
> Generally, bury everything (such as nnmail's ID cache) in such a
> directory. Then you don't have random folks snooping around in
> .newsrc* to learn your reading habits, either.
Cool, thanks for the tip. I don't mind anyone finding my dark
news/mail-reading secrets, but I *do* mind being thrown into a
topic-less Group buffer! :-)
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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-- Roger Zelazny
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* Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
1997-11-20 9:12 Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo Hrvoje Niksic
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
1997-11-20 14:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
@ 1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love
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From: Dave Love @ 1997-11-24 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
Hrvoje> Every time I accidentally start up the netscape news/mail reader
Hrvoje> (e.g. by inadvertently clicking on a mailto: URL),
FWIW you can use a suitable alist for browse-url-browser-function to
DTRT.
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