From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69029 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld is a black hole for old groups Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:09:01 -0400 Message-ID: <84d45kh7w2.fsf@incoming.verizon.net> References: <87y6ogrmvp.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ocpbd9g5.fsf@jidanni.org> <87tyz38go4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <1s8wgfz37d.fsf@voll.uninett.no> <87ws3wazgl.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253531432 12618 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2009 11:10:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:10:32 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17446@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 21 13:10:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mpgmi-0002Os-S8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MpgmU-0002gc-Nf; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MpgmS-0002gE-QA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MpgmF-000632-Cz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Mpgmr-0006rK-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.verizon.net ([173.48.205.71]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KQB00A7QIYNHM14@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:08:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: (Steinar Bang's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:26:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69029 Archived-At: >>>>> Tassilo Horn : >> Steinar Bang 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