Re: New newsgroups won't go away.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:31:15PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's not happening often, but over the last couple of weeks there has 
> been new newsgroups added so I've noticed that the new groups just stay 
> there with my subscribed groups marked (N). How do I make them go away, 

this should only happen if the local clock and the newsservers clock are
out of sync.

on startup tin does query the newsserver about newly added groups since your
last connection time via "NEWGROUPS YYMMDD HHMMSS" and the server responds
with a list of new newsgroups.

> and is the a way to have tin not put up new groups at all?

use the -q cmd.line switch, this skips the NEWGROUPS query at startup
or set $AUTOSUBSCRIBE / $AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE to your needs:

[tin(1)]
| OPTIONS
[...]
|   -q          Don’t check for new newsgroups.
[...]
| ENVIRONMENT
[...]
|    AUTOSUBSCRIBE
|        A  new  group  is  checked  against  the list of patterns; if it
|        matches, tin subscribes the user to the  group  without further
|        query.   See  the  section  "NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS" for an
|        explanation of the valid syntax. For example, setting
|
|        AUTOSUBSCRIBE=comp.os.unix.*,talk.*,!talk.politics.*
|
|        will automatically subscribe the user to all new groups  in the
|        comp.os.unix hierarchy, and all talk groups other than talk.pol‐
|        itics groups (which will be queried for  as  usual).  Of course
|        this  does  not  work if tin is started with the ’’-X’’ command-
|        line switch.
|
|    AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE
|        Is handled like the $AUTOSUBSCRIBE variable, but groups matching
|        the  list are unsubscribed from without further query. For exam‐
|        ple, setting
|
|        AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE=alt.flame.*,u*,!uk.*
|
|        will automatically unsubscribe the user from all  new alt.flame
|        groups  and all groups starting with u (university groups) other
|        than UK groups (which will be queried for as usual).

urs
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