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bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gn
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#63497: [PATCH] Remove obsolete information on archiving mail from Gnus manual |
Date: |
Fri, 19 May 2023 09:08:59 +0300 |
> 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?