Re: Hiding new groups that match a regular expression

Benjamin Esham wrote:
> I use the Gmane newsserver, which presents a number of mailing lists as
> ordinary Usenet groups.  Lately, they've introduced a feature called Gwene
> which does the same for RSS feeds.  I'm not interested in any of these, but
> slrn always shows new newsgroups when it launches.  Is there any way to
> block new newsgroups matching a regex (in this case, "^gwene.*" or similar)
> from being shown?  I'd still like to see the other new newsgroups.

It's been a while since I've used slrn, but I am fairly sure what I 
write below is accurate.

Since you aren't interested in the groups, perhaps you could unsubscribe 
from them and tell slrn to only show you subscribed groups.  I believe 
it's possible to make slrn unsubscribe from groups that match a wildmat 
-- gwene* -- so you can more easily unsubscribe from many groups all at 
once.

Some regular expressions can be converted to wildmats.  The regular 
expression "^gwene" is equivalent to the wildmat "gwene*", for example. 
  One could write a macro to do things to newsgroups with names that 
match a regular expression.

Furthermore, you could make slrn not subscribe to new groups by default, 
so when new groups show up they only appear once (when they're new) and 
then don't show up in subsequent slrn sessions (see above).

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