From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>
Cc: 63497@debbugs.gnu.org, jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de, cohen@andy.bu.edu
Subject: bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 09:08:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1lkua2s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qjd6tou.fsf@ust.hk> (message from Andrew Cohen on Fri, 19 May 2023 08:39:13 +0800)
> From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>
> Cc: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>, Andrew G Cohen
> <cohen@andy.bu.edu>, 63497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:39:13 +0800
>
>
> [...]
>
> >> The Gnus manual still references these external marks in section
> >> "Archiving Mails", I guess that reference just got overlooked.
> >> But without external marks, archiving mails in Gnus is rather
> >> difficult (to my knowledge), at least for the nnml backend. So I
> >> decided to rather remove that section entirely.
>
> EZ> Andrew, should these parts be removed, indeed?
>
> Yes, I think it should be removed. As Jens says, the purpose of this section was to
> indicate that group marks are stored in the filesystem for these
> backends, so saving these marks doesn't require doing anything other
> than copying the files. But the marks are no longer stored in the
> filesystem, so the whole section is moot. (As an irrelevant aside, for
> some strange reason its under the "Browsing the Web" topic, which is why
> I have never looked at it)
OK, thanks.
Jens, would you please rework the patch according to my comments, and
re-post?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-19 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-13 19:28 bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual Jens Schmidt via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-18 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-19 0:39 ` Andrew Cohen
2023-05-19 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-20 21:51 ` bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail Jens Schmidt via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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