From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88343 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: cleaning out old nnml groups Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:46:59 +0100 Message-ID: <868sz39zss.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="49172"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36552@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 29 18:12:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1goWvt-000CcV-A6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1goWvJ-0001Km-0X; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:11:45 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1goWaU-00015H-Op for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:50:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1goWaS-0001ts-G4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:50:14 -0600 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1goWaO-0000W9-KY for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:50:10 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1goWaI-000szz-4e for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:50:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:8qi6IRCR0jcCf226gtWXFa5eiFA= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88343 Archived-At: Lynbech Christian wrote: > Over the years of uisng gnus, I have > accumulated a number of nnml groups that can > be seen when going into the server but where > the corresponding directory no longer exists. > > They are still known to gnus since (I assume) > they are still present in the active file. > > Is there a simple and/or safe way to clean up > the active file, other than to edit it > directly? It does not appear that the command > gnus-group-check-bogus-groups does anything > to nnml groups. `gnus-group-delete-group'? > ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk > ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- > Hit the philistines three times over the head > with the Elisp reference manual. > - > petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) Hint: RFC 3676, section 4.3 (Usenet Signature Convention) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573