From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33783 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Cleaning up bogus newsgroups from newsrc.eld Date: 19 Dec 2000 21:59:57 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nu27z23wy.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> References: <764s0inw7o.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> <5belzmi9jw.fsf@brandy.cs.rochester.edu> <76hf4hlihz.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169826 26927 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4ADD049E for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:00:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB08805; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:00:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:59:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28925 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:59:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from zsh.yi.org (d185fc155.rochester.rr.com [24.95.193.85]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C463D049E for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.yi.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBK2xwE14491; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33783 Jake Colman writes: > >>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU writes: > > ZSH> Jake Colman 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