From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6796 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yair Friedman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: article series (was: yet more Gnus questions & problems) Date: 19 Jun 1996 10:26:43 +0300 Sender: yair@lite.johnbryce.co.il Message-ID: <7wk9x445l8.fsf@lite.johnbryce.co.il> References: <199606140448.AAA11991@csb.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147199 4767 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:53:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA30090 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 02:09:03 -0700 Original-Received: from lite.johnbryce.co.il ([194.90.37.99]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: by lite.johnbryce.co.il (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA21448; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:26:43 +0300 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Sudish Joseph's message of 18 Jun 1996 21:50:58 -0400 Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.7/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6796 Sudish Joseph writes: > Well, I remember being happy when they were taken off the killed > list...it was damned hard to get rid of them. :-) I had to edit the > eld file. I did so because I was afraid of name clashes -- unlike > USENET, it is not guaranteed that the name of a killed mail group will > not show up as a new group. Whether this is poisonous in itself is > known to God and Lars. > > -Sudish > I see two solutions to this. The first is to introduce a delete group operation which will the backend to delete the group. much like B-DEL does to articles, the other is to expand bogus groups deletion to the mail backends so they will consider mail groups that does not have the corresponding files as bogus groups, then you can use b to delete unwanted mail groups. -- Yair.