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Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> On the other hand I have a feeling that gnus assumes implicitly in a
> number places that the primary selection method is nntp.

I don't think Gnus assumes that...

> Indeed when when I tried to remove bogus newsgroups (`b' in *Group*)
> I found that all my nnml groups were zombied from their topics, all
> the old zombied newsgroups were no longer listed in ".newsrc.eld".

I've looked over the code to the function
(`gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups'), and it seems to remove a group if it
is not foreign and it is not known.  So it looks OK to me, and I can't
explain this.  Could you try to debug?

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