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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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