Re: why not just .newsrc?

[David Engster]

Emanuel Berg writes:
> One thing I don't understand is, if .newsrc-dribble is
> used to track every little change, just to have in case
> of a crash (which never happens), then why not do that
> to .newsrc itself, keeping it up-to-date constantly?
> (.newsrc or .newsrc.eld)

. That would increase the chance of a crash corrupting .newsrc.eld
  itself, instead of just the dribble file.

. It would make it more difficult to quit Gnus without saving
  .newsrc.eld in case you did something stupid (you'd have to store undo
  information instead, leading to a reverse dribble file).

-David