Re: how do you subscribe to new groups if I don't save-killed

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes:

> I'm not sure I understand what's going here, i think that if I have have:
> gnus-save-killed-list		nil
> gnus-check-new-newsgroups	'ask-server
> 
> then Gnus doesn't know about any killed groups so when i use `j' or
> `U' it completes to just the groups I am subscribed to or are zombie
> groups.  I'm not sure the value of check-new-newsgroups is relevant,
> but I think save-killed-list is.

Well, the "solution" is to set `gnus-read-active-file' to t.  This
will make startup slower, though.

One way or another, Gnus has to know what groups are available.
Either it must save the list of killed groups, or it must read the
active file if you want to be able to do this sort of thing.

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