Emacs

[Kevin D. Clark]

Paul Lussier writes:

> What version of emacs and gnus are you using?

XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18) "Social Property" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux, Mule)
Gnus v5.10.7

...but I've used many other older versions over the years.

You are apparently using this, BTW:

Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 

>>> [1] I've heard of current state being reset on all messages, flags
>>>     spontaneously removed, assigned, re-arranged, etc. as well as
>>
>> I have never experienced any such problems.
>
> I think there was some .newsrc-dribble and/or .newsrc.eld corruption
> involved.  So it might not have been gnu's fault directly.  Since it
> wasn't me having the problem, I don't remember the details all that
> clearly.

Hmm.

> I also vaguely remember someone mentioning that "we need to use a
> different ssl program" for the value ssl-program-name.  I don't know
> what was wrong with the standard openssl, or what we were supposed to
> use.  It could be that was part of the problems.

I can remember something to this effect a VERY long time ago, but I
can't remember the details.  This artifact (if it existed) shouldn't
be relevant now.

Regards,

--kevin
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