Re: Updating definition of "bogus" groups?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> I've never been clear on what this function does that
> I would want to do and why it's bound to a key. I've only
> run it when I pressed b by mistake, and it's never done
> anything. I may just be not using the part of Gnus where it
> would be useful?

The docstring says "Remove bogus newsgroups." which, granted,
sounds pretty useful.

But then I wonder, how do they enter the *Group* buffer in the
first place?

> My experience is that when a newsgroup that I'm reading is
> removed, it shows up with a * for the article count, so it's
> pretty obvious that it's been deleted and I can either
> delete the corresponding group in Gnus or investigate what's
> going on. But maybe there are scenarios that involve hidden
> groups where it makes sense to explicitly check for these?

Maybe!

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