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Remove obsolete information from Gnus manual

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The Gnus manual was still referencing long-removed external
marks in section "Archiving Mails".  Without external marks,
that section is almost pointless, so remove it completely.
* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Archiving Mail): Remove section.
(Top, Browsing the Web): Remove references to "Archiving
Mail".  (Bug#63497)
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@ -713,7 +713,6 @@ Choosing a Mail Back End
Browsing the Web Browsing the Web
* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string. * Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string.
* RSS:: Reading RDF site summary. * RSS:: Reading RDF site summary.
@ -17244,7 +17243,6 @@ Gnus has been getting a bit of a collection of back ends for providing
interfaces to these sources. interfaces to these sources.
@menu @menu
* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string. * Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string.
* RSS:: Reading RDF site summary. * RSS:: Reading RDF site summary.
@end menu @end menu
@ -17261,29 +17259,6 @@ cases, it makes a lot of sense to let the Gnus Agent (@pxref{Gnus
Unplugged}) handle downloading articles, and then you can read them at Unplugged}) handle downloading articles, and then you can read them at
leisure from your local disk. No more World Wide Wait for you. leisure from your local disk. No more World Wide Wait for you.
@node Archiving Mail
@subsection Archiving Mail
@cindex archiving mail
@cindex backup of mail
Some of the back ends, notably @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, and
@code{nnmaildir}, now actually store the article marks with each group.
For these servers, archiving and restoring a group while preserving
marks is fairly simple.
(Preserving the group level and group parameters as well still
requires ritual dancing and sacrifices to the @file{.newsrc.eld} deity
though.)
To archive an entire @code{nnml}, @code{nnfolder}, or @code{nnmaildir}
server, take a recursive copy of the server directory. There is no need
to shut down Gnus, so archiving may be invoked by @code{cron} or
similar. You restore the data by restoring the directory tree, and
adding a server definition pointing to that directory in Gnus. The
@ref{Article Backlog}, @ref{Asynchronous Fetching} and other things
might interfere with overwriting data, so you may want to shut down Gnus
before you restore the data.
@node Web Searches @node Web Searches
@subsection Web Searches @subsection Web Searches
@cindex nnweb @cindex nnweb