Re: .newsrc.eld is a black hole for old groups

[Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>]

>>>>> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>:
>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> Sorry.  I meant `C-k', which is bound to gnus-topic-kill-group which has
> the documentation
>  gnus-topic-kill-group is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-topic'.
>  (gnus-topic-kill-group &optional N DISCARD)

>  Kill the next N groups.

> I _think_ I verified at one point in time that this command cleared the
> group out of .newsrc.eld.  But... I'm not staking my life on it...

Yes, but you also need to have gnus-save-killed-list to nil, which I
think is not the default.  This keeps killed groups out of your
.newsrc.eld, but comes with a cost, as noted in the documentation:

  *If non-nil, save the list of killed groups to the startup file.
  If you set this variable to nil, you'll save both time (when starting
  and quitting) and space (both memory and disk), but it will also mean
  that Gnus has no record of which groups are new and which are old, so
  the automatic new newsgroups subscription methods become meaningless.

  You should always set `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to `ask-server' or
  nil if you set this variable to nil.

  This variable can also be a regexp.  In that case, all groups that do
  not match this regexp will be removed before saving the list.

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net