From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69021 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld is a black hole for old groups Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87tyz38go4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87y6ogrmvp.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ocpbd9g5.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253087963 26226 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2009 07:59:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17438@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 16 09:59:15 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 1MnpQ3-00078Q-Bo for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:59:15 +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 1MnpPE-0004mr-QT; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MnpPC-0004me-O7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnpPB-0000Jf-5h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MnpPn-0001dY-00 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C4878A129C; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19688-09; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:19 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (wlan-138.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.93.138]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F75789B8E0; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:58:19 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87ocpbd9g5.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:23:06 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69021 Archived-At: jidanni@jidanni.org writes: >>>>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn writes: >> Also in ~/News there are files corresponding to those newsgroups with >> no other way to clean them up other than going in by hand... > TH> Does M-x gnus-agent-expire RET help? > (gnus-agent-expire nil "gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.user" t) > "Expiry recovered 0 NOV entries, deleted 0 files, and freed 0.000000 B." > and nothing changed on disk or in .newsrc.eld. Hm, I don't know if it does anything with your .newsrc.eld, but at least it should expire read and unmarked articles the agent cached that are older than `gnus-agent-expire-days'. At least here, it does so. With regards to the .newsrc.eld issue. I guess the deletion of groups is not done, because when you subscribe to a group that was subscribed some time ago, then gnus will automatically know which articles you've already read. And since there are only entries for groups you already subscribed, it won't grow ad infimum. Bye, Tassilo