Re: cleaning out old nnml groups

[Lynbech Christian <christian.lynbech@tieto.com>]

Thanks, that will work nicely.

RE RFC3676: I know, I know, I will fix it.

                              -- Christian


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On Tue, Jan 29 2019, Emanuel Berg wrote:

Lynbech Christian wrote:

> Over the years of uisng gnus, I have
> accumulated a number of nnml groups that can
> be seen when going into the server but where
> the corresponding directory no longer exists.
>
> They are still known to gnus since (I assume)
> they are still present in the active file.
>
> Is there a simple and/or safe way to clean up
> the active file, other than to edit it
> directly? It does not appear that the command
> gnus-group-check-bogus-groups does anything
> to nnml groups.

`gnus-group-delete-group'?

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> petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)

Hint: RFC 3676, section 4.3 (Usenet Signature Convention)

    https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt

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