From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Aargh! Netscape mail reader creates .newsrc-foo
Date: 20 Nov 1997 16:35:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigwwi3o9x3.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "20 Nov 1997 09:12:21 -0500"
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! :-)
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Thou Who might be our Father Who perhaps may be in Heaven...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-20 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-20 9:12 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
1997-11-20 15:35 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-11-24 21:06 ` Dave Love
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