From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80198 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:00:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317956885 12831 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 03:08:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 03:08:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28492@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 05:08:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0n1-0002oC-GN for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0lz-0006Sw-N3; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0ly-0006Sk-EJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0lw-0002mD-UO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0lu-00082i-3m for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:06:50 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC0lt-0002VT-Ra for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:06:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NvlA5sdSqRYg9E0xorqmgIN7pek= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80198 Archived-At: on Thu Oct 06 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: > >> But then you get an alarming message and a prompt the next time you >> start up gnus. > > I don't think it's particularly alarming. Of course not. Can't we at least read the dribble file unconditionally? IIRC Gnus can become hopelessly borked if you answer "no" to that prompt. In fact, I seem to remember you telling me years ago to just answer yes always. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com