* mysterious zombie groups
@ 2002-06-15 23:35 ArrowHunter
2002-06-16 0:28 ` Nevin Kapur
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From: ArrowHunter @ 2002-06-15 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I am fairly new to gnus (and e-macs for that matter). I have noticed
that my "zombie groups" list contains some newsgroups which I have
never looked at, and never even heard of, in fact.
I first noticed this a little while ago, and at that time I deleted
.newsrc.eld and reset things, but since then some (different) spurious
zombie groups have appeared.
Is this something I should worry about? Does it mean that my machine
has a security problem? The machines I access emacs from are shared
in a department.
I have a .authinfo file, but it does not contain my password (I
re-type it every time I log on), and anyway, I have chmodded it to
600.
?
Thanks very much
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* Re: mysterious zombie groups
2002-06-15 23:35 mysterious zombie groups ArrowHunter
@ 2002-06-16 0:28 ` Nevin Kapur
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From: Nevin Kapur @ 2002-06-16 0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
wp_gibbons@yahoo.co.uk (ArrowHunter) writes:
> I am fairly new to gnus (and e-macs for that matter). I have noticed
> that my "zombie groups" list contains some newsgroups which I have
> never looked at, and never even heard of, in fact.
[...]
Here's an excerpt from the Gnus manual that might answer your
question: if you have Gnus check for new groups, they will be made
zombies.
,----
| Why does Gnus distinguish between zombie and killed groups? Well,
| when a new group arrives on the server, Gnus by default makes it a
| zombie group. This means that you are normally not bothered with new
| groups, but you can type `A z' to get a list of all new groups.
| Subscribe the ones you like and kill the ones you don't want. (`A k'
| shows a list of killed groups.)
`----
-Nevin
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