Re: mutt vs gnus

[Sherilyn <sherilyn@suespammers.org>]

[Followup to myself]
Sherilyn <sherilyn@suespammers.org> writes:

> Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There is a tendency in gnus to make you prisoner of it.
> > 
> > Same thing for news : how can I decipher .newsrc.eld in order to get
> > the list of read message if I want to change reader ?
> > 
> I thought I'd have a look at .newsrc.eld.  
> 
> ;; Never delete this file -- if you want to force Gnus to read the
> ;; .newsrc file (if you have one), touch .newsrc instead.
> 
> I've never tried this, but it sounds like a reasonable compromise.
> 
Duh!  It doesn't say that the .newsrc file will be kept up to date. :)
Would be nice to check the code and make sure it does that, I suppose.

Having said that, the format of .newsrc.eld seems fairly
straightforward, and it should be pretty easy to write some perl or
whatever to parse the file for nntp newsgroups and read the lists of
read postings.  It's easier to write that kind of thing in lisp, of
course, but that isn't lisp's fault.

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