From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/650 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wp_gibbons@yahoo.co.uk (ArrowHunter) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: mysterious zombie groups Date: 15 Jun 2002 16:35:48 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <296e7916.0206151535.34eddaac@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667598 7814 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:33:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:54 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.82.103.143 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1024184148 2512 127.0.0.1 (15 Jun 2002 23:35:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 2002 23:35:48 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:790 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 790 Tue Jan 17 17:27:54 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:650 Archived-At: 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