Subject: bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:42:16 +1100

Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	I didn’t.  The person who brought this issue to IRC has
> 	apparently used something like (nnimap "imap.gmail.com") for
> 	gnus-select-method.
>
> 	Though indeed, I know of no reason /not/ to set
> 	gnus-save-newsrc-file to nil in this case.

There should only be newsgroups in the .newsrc file -- it's for
interoperability with other newsreaders, and putting non-newsgroups in
there makes no sense.  So that does sound like a bug.

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