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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> Can this somehow be turned off?  Couldn't Gnus be made to ignore
> `.newsrc-foo' files?

(setq gnus-startup-file "~/Mail/.private/.newsrc")

Generally, bury everything (such as nnmail's ID cache) in such a
directory.  Then you don't have random folks snooping around in
.newsrc* to learn your reading habits, either.

$ chmod 700 ~/Mail/.private # for normal UNIXish filesystems, or
$ fs sa ~/Mail/.private -clear YourID rlidwka # for $HOMEs in AFS.