Re: Nasty gnus bug?
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:33:56PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Federico Di Gregorio <fog@susi.debian.org> writes:
>
> sorry for writing here and not using the bug track but
> gnus (the emacs newsreader just did something really bad to me
> and I DON'T want to try to rerpoduce the bug). Inside a group
> I slected "catchup all articles" (the 'c' key) and then yes ('y').
> Emacs simply deleted my entire home directory (phew, I did a
> backup yesterday, what a luck).
>
> I do `c y' all the time, and I've never had that happen. Are you sure
> that emacs did it?
>
Yes. I do 'c y' all the times too and that never happened. I
cleary seen the "Deleting foobar..." stuff in the emacs status
minibuffer but this is my new K6-II 366 box (this is the reason for
the bacjup, new install :) and before I pressed C-g all was done.
*sigh*
Federico
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