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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:24:49 +0100

Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	As long as theres no clear indication from Gnus that ~/.newsrc
> 	could easily break when used together with nnimap (and possibly
> 	other similar select methods), Id rather deem it a bug in Gnus.

It should perhaps not create a .newsrc file at all when
gnus-select-method isn't an NNTP method?  I think I'll just make that
change instead.

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