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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

Kai> On 23 Feb 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Not bad, but I'm not especially fond of the regexp matching; my
>> naming scheme for my groups should not be determined by whether they
>> have similar parameters, any more than my topic hierarchy should be
>> so determined.

Kai> I like to be able to say that all nnml:auto.* groups are
Kai> auto-expirable.  This way, I can put auto-expirable groups in various
Kai> topics and I don't have to worry about setting the parameter on each
Kai> and every new group (where I think it's appriate).

I do this already in my .gnus.el --

(setq gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "^nnml:list\\.")

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