Re: Updating definition of "bogus" groups?

[Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> But instead of getting confused by terminology, which is always going to
> be incorrect to some degree in any applied endeavor, if we are talking
> `gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups', what is that it does that is useful? What
> to do, or not do for that matter, should be based on that.

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?

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?

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>