From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 63497@debbugs.gnu.org,
Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>,
Andrew G Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
Subject: bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:39:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qjd6tou.fsf@ust.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835y8px5ci.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 May 2023 14:10:37 +0300")
[...]
>> 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)
Best,
Andy
--
Andrew Cohen
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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 [this message]
2023-05-19 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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