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

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> > Well, it would be kinda difficult to do, really...
>> 
>> Hm,... why?

> Because Gnus isn't set up to work that way.

>> 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.

You're right, of course.  But the center of my problem with having
everything in a single file, is somewhere in this confusion.  So, Let
me rephrase: it's the last part that takes up the major part for the
~/.newsrc.el file.

It's the part which takes the longest time to save, everytime you save
the file.  It's the least valuable (to me) part of the file.