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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> It's fragile because we risk losing a *lot* of _mostly_ _static_
> information, if the .newsrc.eld is corrupted 

That's true.  But doesn't Emacs create backup files when you save it?
Or have you switched that off?

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