bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual

[Jens Schmidt]

Hi,

my first test patch to practice things, pls comment if its format is not 
what you expect.  I hope Thunderbird does not mess up the format.  FSF 
copyright assignment is in process, but probably not yet completed.

Regardless of this being a test patch, it fixes a real but minor doc 
issue in the Gnus manual:  In 2012 Lars committed a change that removed 
the previous "external marks" feature  from various backends 
(89b163db286d79b43fb5c9927fc622bbf7d2ef1a).

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.

Thanks

Jens



* doc/misc/gnus.texi: Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from 
Gnus manual

---
 doc/misc/gnus.texi | 25 -------------------------
 1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index be7504c92bf..e08a5587962 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -713,7 +713,6 @@ Top

 Browsing the Web

-* Archiving Mail::
 * Web Searches::                Creating groups from articles that 
match a string.
 * RSS::                         Reading RDF site summary.

@@ -17247,7 +17246,6 @@ Browsing the Web
 interfaces to these sources.

 @menu
-* Archiving Mail::
 * Web Searches::                Creating groups from articles that 
match a string.
 * RSS::                         Reading RDF site summary.
 @end menu
@@ -17264,29 +17262,6 @@ Browsing the Web
 Unplugged}) handle downloading articles, and then you can read them at
 leisure from your local disk.  No more World Wide Wait for you.

-@node Archiving Mail
-@subsection Archiving Mail
-@cindex archiving mail
-@cindex backup of mail
-
-Some of the back ends, notably @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, and
-@code{nnmaildir}, now actually store the article marks with each group.
-For these servers, archiving and restoring a group while preserving
-marks is fairly simple.
-
-(Preserving the group level and group parameters as well still
-requires ritual dancing and sacrifices to the @file{.newsrc.eld} deity
-though.)
-
-To archive an entire @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, or @code{nnmaildir}
-server, take a recursive copy of the server directory.  There is no need
-to shut down Gnus, so archiving may be invoked by @code{cron} or
-similar.  You restore the data by restoring the directory tree, and
-adding a server definition pointing to that directory in Gnus.  The
-@ref{Article Backlog}, @ref{Asynchronous Fetching} and other things
-might interfere with overwriting data, so you may want to shut down Gnus
-before you restore the data.
-
 @node Web Searches
 @subsection Web Searches
 @cindex nnweb
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