Re: .newrc.eld renamed

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> C-h i m gnus i  newsrc.eld  gives one hit.. not promising
>
> The text in this hit explains it, at least in my copy.  You probably
> used Netscape or something that created a .newsrc-foo and Gnus picked
> that up.  From the Info node:
>
>    You can turn off writing the `.newsrc' file by setting
> `gnus-save-newsrc-file' to `nil', which means you can delete the file
> and save some space, as well as exiting from Gnus faster.  However,
> this will make it impossible to use other newsreaders than Gnus.  But
> hey, who would want to, right?  Similarly, setting
> `gnus-read-newsrc-file' to `nil' makes Gnus ignore the `.newsrc' file
> and any `.newsrc-SERVER' files, which is convenient if you have a
> tendency to use Netscape once in a while.

This doesn't explain it at all in my reading, but I guess it does mean
what I'm seeing.  This would not have and did not tip me
off. Newsrc.eld is not mentioned there.  It is mentioned in the para
above but not in connection of being renamed.

It should clearly say that newsrc.eld might be renamed by some other
application having been used.  Or that .newrc might be and then gnus
will rename .newrc.eld too.  Still not clear to me what actually
happened there.

I think the culprit may have been slrn since I don't recall using
netscape for news ever.  But I think slrn uses something else like:
~/.jnewsrc.