Re: Updating definition of "bogus" groups?
Emanuel Berg <[email protected]> Thu, 23 May 2024 02:47:09 +0200
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Russ Allbery wrote: > I've never been clear on what this function does that > I would want to do and why it's bound to a key. I've only > run it when I pressed b by mistake, and it's never done > anything. I may just be not using the part of Gnus where it > would be useful? The docstring says "Remove bogus newsgroups." which, granted, sounds pretty useful. But then I wonder, how do they enter the *Group* buffer in the first place? > My experience is that when a newsgroup that I'm reading is > removed, it shows up with a * for the article count, so it's > pretty obvious that it's been deleted and I can either > delete the corresponding group in Gnus or investigate what's > going on. But maybe there are scenarios that involve hidden > groups where it makes sense to explicitly check for these? Maybe! -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal