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From: craffert@ml.com (Colin Rafferty)
Subject: Re: missing feedback
Date: 15 Apr 1996 14:45:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocrspe5wclp.fsf@spssunp.spspme.ml.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Henry S. Thompson"'s message of Mon, 15 Apr 96 17:16:29 BST

Henry S Thompson writes:

> Also, is there any way to be saved from myself in a way which gnus
> manages because .newsrc is actually in a buffer, namely that if I am
> running Gnus on one machine, run it AGAIN (e.g. from home) and read a
> bunch of news and exit, then quitting Gnus on the first machine the
> next day DOESN'T notice that .newsrc[.eld] has changed and simply
> overwrites?

If this ability was added, I would want there to be a variable to turn
it off.

Actually, since this would be a new feature that could impact
performance (NFS at my job stinks), I would prefer to have the default
be to NOT check.

-- 
Colin Rafferty
Violate the Communications Decency Act.

  "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her."
  (Punishment for anyone who violates the commandments, Deuteronomy 28:30)


  reply	other threads:[~1996-04-15 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-04-15 16:16 Henry S. Thompson
1996-04-15 18:45 ` Colin Rafferty [this message]
1996-04-15 20:13   ` Steven L Baur
1996-04-15 18:47 ` Colin Rafferty
1996-04-15 19:00   ` Paul D. Smith
1996-04-15 19:45     ` William Perry
1996-04-15 19:51       ` Paul D. Smith
1996-04-16 21:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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