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Ted Stern wrote on Sane 1, 1997: 

> These work for me.  Dribble never gets bigger than a few hundred bytes.
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
> (add-hook 'gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
> (add-hook 'gnus-group-catchup-group-hook 'gnus-dribble-save)
> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'gnus-group-save-newsrc)

Oh yes, gnus-group-save-newsrc does clear the dribble file, so it's
just fine.

Still, it would be nice to have a default gnus setting that prevent the
dribble file from getting too big ...