Michael writes: > AFAIU Gnus stores such stuff in a file named ".newsrc.eld" (AFAIR > ".newsrc.el" in older Emacs versions).
Looks like the 'd' has been there at least since 1997; gnus-start.el: eec82323c2e3 (Lars Ingebrigtsen 1997-04-16 2768) (setq buffer-file-name eec82323c2e3 (Lars Ingebrigtsen 1997-04-16 2769) (concat gnus-current-startup-file ".eld")) and before that; gnus.el: aa088210dd (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 1997-03-04 01:26:40 +0000 9645) (write-region 1 (point-max) aa088210dd (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 1997-03-04 01:26:40 +0000 9646) (concat gnus-current-startup-file ".eld") aa088210dd (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 1997-03-04 01:26:40 +0000 9647) nil 'nomesg)) which is as far back the git repository I had lying around seems to go: commit aa088210dd9c90f00466b59c58f60f14b4544e69 (HEAD, tag: v0-5) Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> Date: Tue Mar 4 01:26:40 1997 +0000 Initial revision :-), Adam -- "Do you think the people who make these decisions Adam Sjøgren about what features a project will have are the a...@koldfront.dk *engineers*? Because that's adorable."