Re: Cleaning up bogus newsgroups from newsrc.eld

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> >>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
>     ZSH> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
>     >> How can I trim cruft from my newsrc.eld?  The number of newsgroups are
>     >> getting larger and larger yet I know many of them are bogus.  Is there
>     >> a way to trim the size of that file?  It iakes FOREVER to execute an
>     >> A-k command!
> 
>     ZSH> (setq gnus-save-killed-list nil)
> 
> If I set this to nil, the killed newsgroups will not be saved in my
> newsrc.eld file.  Fine.  And since I've already set
> `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to `ask-server', I'll still get an
> accurate listing of all new newsgroups as they get carried by my
> news server.  Also fine.  But if I do this how do I then see a list
> of all available newsgroups if I decide I want to subscribe to
> something to which I am not currently subscribed?  Currently, I may
> not have an interest in any comp.x.* newsgroups.  What if something
> chages I want to see what comp.x.* newsgroups are available?  Since
> I routinely kill all my zombies, won't these killed groups
> disappear?  And, if so, how can I then see what groups are carried
> by my server?

You could browse the server to find out new groups.  

Now, I've changed the behavior of `C-k', that is, if a group is killed
twice, it will no longer be in gnus-killed-list.

ShengHuo