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Subject: Re: groups don't expire
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Christian Gudrian <Christian@Gudrian.de> writes:

> ,----
> | (setq gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups
> |       (regexp-opt '("^nn.*:list\\.")))
> `----

Have a look at the regexp that comes out.  regexp-opt is documented
to expect a list of strings, not a list of regular expressions!

Example:
(regexp-opt '(".*")) => "\\.\\*"
See?

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