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Pterodactyl Gnus v0.31
GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27 1998 on darwin

Hi,

I would like to keep all of my mail and news files in the directory
~/Mail, so I've put the following in my .gnus file:

(setq gnus-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
      gnus-kill-files-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
      gnus-dribble-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
      gnus-nocem-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News/NoCeM")
      nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News"))

I don't know if I really need all of these lines, but anyway...

Every now and then, I notice the existence of directories ~/News and
~/News/drafts.  Two questions:
  1. Where did they come from?
  2. How do I keep them from coming into existence in the future?

This is an annoying sort of bug to report, because I haven't figured
out what actions cause these directories to be created.  In fact, it
acts sort of like the electron/double slit experiment: as long as I'm
paying attention, running "ls" every now and then to see if the ~/News
directory has appeared, it doesn't appear.  If I forget to check for a
few hours, then suddenly ~/News is there.  It's a new breakthrough in
quantum computing, I guess.

I don't see any suspicious-looking lines in my .newsrc.eld file, and I
don't know where else to look.  Any suggestions?

-- 
John H. Palmieri
e-mail: palmieri@member.ams.org        205 Computing/Mathematics Building
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~jpalmier/      University of Notre Dame
(219) 631-8846                         Notre Dame, IN 46556