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Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:

> For fancy splitting, it will post to the group list ("bogus"), and for
> non-fancy splitting, it will just post to the last method (whether the
> test matches or not).

If you had used a slightly older Gnus, the fancy mail split would
silently drop mail that didn't match any rule.  This was discovered by
accident by someone, and judged too dangerous a feature. 

I think ratinox' suggestion about special casing a `garbage' group
where mail will simply be dropped is better.