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Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de> writes:

> Is there a reason why `gnus-default-subscribed-newsgroups' is a list
> and not a regular expression, which IMO would be more convenient in
> most cases?
> 
> Example: if the variable is set in a site-wide default setting the
> administor has to keep up with frequently changes of the available
> local newsgroups. Quite annoying, I think. As a regular expression,
> the setting "local\." would suffice (until the end of the world as we
> know it).

I guess that would make change, but it's problematic changing a string
variable into a regexp variable.  For instance, "no.general" (which is
the general Norwegian newsgroup) would, interpreted as a regexp, match
"alt.really.nasty.porno.general".  And some group names aren't valid
regexps, and so on.

An introducing a new variable for this seems kinda like overkill, no?

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