Re: Gnus slow?

[Frank Schmitt <ich@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <ich@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>
>> Perhaps a note which benefits nntp marks offer would be good. I for
>> instance have not the faintest clue if I want or need them.
>
> See GNUS-NEWS:
>
>  ** The nntp back end store article marks in `~/News/marks'.
>
>  The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
>  `nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (backend)
>  variable `nntp-marks-is-evil'.  The advantage of this is that you can
>  copy `~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus
>  installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and
>  marked.  The data in `~/News/marks' has priority over the same data
>  in `~/.newsrc.eld'.

Does this still work, if I use different servers on the tow machines?

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