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From: those who know me have no need of my name <not-a-real-address@usa.net>
Subject: Re: my .newsrc.eld is 100 times bigger than my .newsrc
Date: 24 Jul 2002 11:28:10 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ujt3qbd8qb6lbf@news.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874req9hh5.fsf@jidanni.org>

in gnu.emacs.gnus i read:

>761167 (setq gnus-zombie-list

this is easy to comprehend, and is what karl described -- if you don't save
unsubscribed groups all that goes away, but at the expense of queries about
posting to potentially non-existing groups.

>Anyways, Hi.  My name is Dan.  I'm taking my .newsrc.eld out dancing
>this weekend.  Is there any magic diet pill I can feed her first?

while gnus is stopped just delete the zombie-list line from your .eld file,
if you can live with the caveat, it won't have any adverse effect.

-- 
bringing you boring signatures for 17 years


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-24 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87wusbbutp.fsf@jidanni.org>
2002-07-04 20:26 ` Adrian Aichner
     [not found] ` <uiifm6ia39852d@news.supernews.com>
2002-07-18  5:58   ` Dan Jacobson
     [not found]     ` <vxkn0so68uc.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com>
     [not found]       ` <ujg0949b660d9d@news.supernews.com>
     [not found]         ` <874req9hh5.fsf@jidanni.org>
2002-07-24 11:28           ` those who know me have no need of my name [this message]

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