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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> > I'm a little bit worried about the vulnerability of my .newsrc.eld,
> > especially as it gets bigger.  It contains Group Parameters (lots of
> > work to reconstruct), ticked articles in mail groups (*essential*),
> > and ticked, read, etc. articles in news groups (seldom essential).
> > 
> > It's the last part that tends to be growing, no...?
> 
> It shouldn't be.  Marks for articles that have expired from the news
> server are discarded, so you should get up to holding size for news
> groups after using Gnus for a couple of weeks.

but if you have an early article cached, then no marks will be removed
for articles after that point even if they have expired.  instead of
using the active range for the cache/server combined, the marks should
be flushed by using the server active range and the set of cached
articles.


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