From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29661 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mcfarlan@neca.com (D. Michael McFarland) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I am an idiot. Date: 29 Mar 2000 12:49:34 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166295 3975 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC3ED051E for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:51:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB09254; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:51:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:49:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04064 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:48:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from katrine.mcfhome (nas2-13.dialup.neca.com [209.182.66.66]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD43D051E for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:49:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from mcfarlan@localhost) by katrine.mcfhome (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01315; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:49:34 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: katrine.mcfhome: mcfarlan set sender to mcfarlan@neca.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "29 Mar 2000 17:49:37 +0200" Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29661 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29661 >>>>> "Kai" =3D=3D Kai Gro=DFjohann writes: Kai> You have probably screwed up your .newsrc.eld. I regret having Kai> to tell you that the article marks are stored in .newsrc.eld :-/ Is there a general strategy for coping with this situation, where one has somehow "lost" some of Gnus's state information? I suppose quitting via Q is the best bet. Not that I've ever made such a mistake, of course. Ahem. ("What do you mean I can't yank back those six groups I just killed?") Michael --=20 D. Michael McFarland