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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> 
>> So -- would it be OK to let Gnus ignore group names starting with "."?
>> I.e. replace the "^\\.\\.?$" in gnus-cache-generate-active with "^\\.".
> 
> Yup.  Fix in Gnus v5.6.45.

Thanks!

BTW, the same problem may exist in some of these:
	gnus-score-score-files-1,
	nnheader-directory-files,
	nnml-generate-nov-databases-1,
	gnus-uu-scan-directory, gnus-uu-directory-files.
But I expect at least gnus-uu should handle .* files too; I haven't
checked.

-- 
Hallvard