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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
* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string.
* 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.
@menu
* Archiving Mail::
* Web Searches:: Creating groups from articles that match a string.
* RSS:: Reading RDF site summary.
@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
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
@subsection Web Searches
@cindex nnweb