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Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net> writes:

> If you want to do this, you've got to set the variable 'custom-file'
> to your .gnus (or whatever you want), make your changes, and reset it
> afterwards to its current value.

It won't work, customize always write everything it knows has been
customize, so it will lead to duplicate setting and potential
confusion. 

Sufficiently new versions of customize have comments, other groupings
of settings will be available when theme support gets sufficiently
advanced.