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Greg Stark <gsstark@fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU> writes:

> well, i don't think it would be worthwhile having zombie groups,
> killed groups, and not alive groups.  I think once Gnus knows about these
> groups they should be thrown into the killed list. 

I agree in principle.  The only thing is that Gnus typically knows
about 10k groups.  Building a 10k element list at the drop of a hat is
not something that you want to see Gnus do.  (Gross bloatage and it
would be much too slow.)

> Incidentally it seems to me like the semantics of F are
> backwards. it should use the values of gnus-check-new-newsgroups and
> gnus-read-active-file unless i tell it with a C-u to do it the long
> way reading the active file.

Well, I think that when people push `F', they generally really want to
get all possible new files.  `C-u F' is a more lightweight version of
the same.  Seems natural to me, even though it works the opposite way
compared with, uhm, comparable functions.

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