Re: Hiding new groups that match a regular expression

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J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:

> 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).

Hi J.B.,

The problem isn't that slrn automatically subscribes to these groups, it's
that it shows them at all.  When I launch slrn I see all these groups, and
just hold down "u" until I'm through them.  What I'd like is for slrn not to
show these groups at all.  (It would work for my purposes if slrn *never*
showed these groups, in any situation, since I am not subscribed to any of
them nor will I be.)

Thanks,
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Benjamin D. Esham   |   [email protected]
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