From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: splitting .newsrc.eld
Date: 19 Jul 1997 20:44:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2iuy6j30r.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of 17 Jul 1997 08:02:14 +0200
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> > Well, it would be kinda difficult to do, really...
>
> Hm,... why?
Because Gnus isn't set up to work that way.
> I'm a little bit worried about the vulnerability of my .newsrc.eld,
> especially as it gets bigger. It contains Group Parameters (lots of
> work to reconstruct), ticked articles in mail groups (*essential*),
> and ticked, read, etc. articles in news groups (seldom essential).
>
> It's the last part that tends to be growing, no...?
It shouldn't be. Marks for articles that have expired from the news
server are discarded, so you should get up to holding size for news
groups after using Gnus for a couple of weeks.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-19 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-15 12:38 Steinar Bang
1997-07-16 18:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-07-16 19:05 ` .newsrc.eld Dan Christensen
1997-07-18 7:29 ` .newsrc.eld Andy Eskilsson
1997-07-18 14:54 ` .newsrc.eld Christian Limpach
1997-07-19 18:36 ` .newsrc.eld Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-07-17 6:02 ` splitting .newsrc.eld Steinar Bang
1997-07-19 18:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-07-24 23:21 ` David Moore
1997-07-25 7:15 ` Steinar Bang
1997-07-25 18:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-07-28 7:04 ` Steinar Bang
1997-08-01 23:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-08-04 13:01 ` Steinar Bang
1997-07-17 11:59 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-07-21 8:24 ` SL Baur
[not found] ` <6fd8ocyf4p.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1997-07-21 14:11 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
[not found] ` <6f90z0scbx.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1997-07-21 15:15 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-07-23 17:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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