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    From Matto Fransen@mattof@sdf.org to gnu.emacs.help on Sun Feb 26 10:51:00 2023
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help

    Hi,

    I use two laptops. When reading usenet and other news
    on the one, I see messages I have already seen on the
    other.

    What would be a good way to share or synchronise the
    list of subcribed groups, and the seen-status of their
    messages between these two?

    Would putting .newsrc and .newsrc.eld on a NFS-share
    be a good idea? (I don't run Gnus on both machines
    at the same time)

    Will it be enough to sync these files, or should I
    also look at other files?

    Thanks,

    Matto
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  • From Loris Bennett@loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de to gnu.emacs.help on Mon Feb 27 08:29:19 2023
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help

    Hi Matto,

    Matto Fransen <mattof@sdf.org> writes:

    Hi,

    I use two laptops. When reading usenet and other news
    on the one, I see messages I have already seen on the
    other.

    What would be a good way to share or synchronise the
    list of subcribed groups, and the seen-status of their
    messages between these two?

    Would putting .newsrc and .newsrc.eld on a NFS-share
    be a good idea? (I don't run Gnus on both machines
    at the same time)

    Will it be enough to sync these files, or should I
    also look at other files?

    I have .newsrc and .newsrc.eld in a directory which is synchronised
    between two laptops via Nextcloud.

    This works, although it seems a little brittle. You probably need to
    ensure that your Gnus configurations are identical (I use Git for that), otherwise the files could become corrupted. When I initially set this
    up, this happened to me a couple of times and I had throw the files
    away. I only subscribe to a couple of groups, so the main work was
    recreating the topics I use to sort my mail.

    HTH

    Loris
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  • From Matto Fransen@mattof@sdf.org to gnu.emacs.help on Mon Feb 27 10:10:06 2023
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help

    Hi Loris,

    "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

    Would putting .newsrc and .newsrc.eld on a NFS-share
    be a good idea? (I don't run Gnus on both machines
    at the same time)

    Will it be enough to sync these files, or should I
    also look at other files?

    I have .newsrc and .newsrc.eld in a directory which is synchronised
    between two laptops via Nextcloud.

    Ah, great.

    This works, although it seems a little brittle. You probably need to
    ensure that your Gnus configurations are identical (I use Git for
    that),

    Maybe I should synchronise these too.

    otherwise the files could become corrupted. When I initially set this
    up, this happened to me a couple of times and I had throw the files
    away.

    Yes, it stays a bit scary :)

    I only subscribe to a couple of groups, so the main work was
    recreating the topics I use to sort my mail.

    Good to know the concept works. Thanks!

    Best regards,

    Matto
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