From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65849 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how to delete groups despite backend Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:11:11 +0800 Message-ID: <87y7ccskm8.fsf@jidanni.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196640702 8707 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2007 00:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:11:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14344@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 03 01:11:50 2007 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 1IyyuZ-0006Mb-Gb for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:11:47 +0100 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 1IyyuE-00039h-Ml; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:11:26 -0600 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 1IyyuD-00039O-Gp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:11:25 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Iyyu8-0007e4-07 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:11:25 -0600 Original-Received: from lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5] helo=looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Iyyu5-00070V-00 for ; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:11:17 +0100 Original-Received: from jidanni1 (122-127-40-86.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.40.86]) by looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70A616DFE3 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:11:17 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Score: 0.7 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.1.9 2007-02-13) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.2046 Ham tokens: 0.000-2646--8816h-6s--0d--H*M:fsf, 0.000-2437--8123h-6s--0d--H*MI:fsf, 0.001-14--44h-0s--0d--gnus, 0.002-11--35h-0s--0d--backend, 0.003-57--192h-1s--0d--optional Spam tokens: 0.962-4240--1171h-49106s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.962-4240--1171h-49106s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--H*RU:sk:122-127, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:122-127, 0.940-3420--1825h-47599s--0d--H*r:quimby.gnus.org Autolearn status: no 1.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name -0.2 BAYES_40 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 20 to 40% [score: 0.2046] -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65849 Archived-At: KY> I use `C-k', which only removes a group entry from the newsrc KY> database. But is still is hiding in .newsrc.eld. There is no other way to exorcise it from .newsrc.eld other than editing it by hand. P.S. maybe DISCARD (gnus-group-kill-group &optional N DISCARD) would work, but who knows, as it is undocumented! KY> The reason that the nndoc back end does not offer the KY> group deletion feature is that files it uses are considered to KY> be not for only the back end. Gee, the local files were long gone anyway (/tmp). Too bad it can't tell. Anyway, gnus is thus not environmentally sound: can create groups but not remove them.