Re: my .newsrc.eld is 100 times bigger than my .newsrc

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

Well gosh, being that Outlook has a "compress news folders" or
whatever function, how about one for gnus?  And I don't mean just to
go and bzip2 myself, I know how to do that.  I mean something that
will really clean the junk out.

>>>>> "t" == those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net> writes:

t> in gnu.emacs.gnus i read:
>> How big's your .newsrc.eld?
>> $ wc -lc .newsrc .newsrc.eld
>> 48    6642 .newsrc
>> 13  796852 .newsrc.eld
>> mine's 100 times bigger than my .newsrc.  Is there any diet program
>> available to reduce its size?

t> gnus remembers the article number of every article you've ever read and if
t> you don't read all articles that can generate quite a long list (because of
t> the gaps).  it does this even if there is no chance of the article re-
t> appearing (those below the low water mark).  what is needed is a function
t> to eliminate the read marks for article numbers below the low water mark.
t> in fact the low water mark of each group should be tracked, because if the
t> server ever returns a lower value than what was last recorded the group has
t> been renumbered and something needs to be done about it (typically clearing
t> all marks, because they've all become invalid).
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