From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27670 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emerick Rogul Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Slashdot maintenance Date: 04 Dec 1999 11:37:24 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164655 25761 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:44:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23614 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:38:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB11826; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:37:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:38:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11797 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:37:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.10.2]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23609 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:37:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from csa.bu.edu (csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8/(BU-S-10/16/98-v1.0a)) with ESMTP id LAA21387 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:37:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from emerick@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5/(BU-C-02/10/97-v1.0)) id LAA06256; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:37:24 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: csa.bu.edu: emerick set sender to emerick@csa.bu.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27670 After I read all of the messages in a Slashdot group (or as many as I can bear to :-) I usually do a "catchup all" so the group isn't displayed anymore. But these empty groups are still being saved in my .newsrc.eld file, and it's getting bigger. For regular newsgroups this is fine, but slashdot topics eventually end...it'd be nice if slashdot groups could automagically expire or otherwise disappear completely after a period of time. What do other people think about this? -Emerick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerick Rogul /\/ "i've said many, many, many unkind things about emerick@cs.bu.edu /\/ philadelphia, and i meant every one of them." ----------------------------------------------------------- david lynch