Subscription Methods
New Groups
Subscription Methods
New Groups
A nice and portable way to control which new newsgroups should be
subscribed (or ignored) is to put an options line at the start of
the `.newsrc' file. Here's an example:
options -n !alt.all !rec.all sci.all
This line obviously belongs to a serious-minded intellectual scientific
person (or she may just be plain old boring), because it says that all
groups that have names beginning with `alt' and `rec' should
be ignored, and all groups with names beginning with `sci' should
be subscribed. Gnus will not use the normal subscription method for
subscribing these groups.
gnus-subscribe-options-newsgroup-method is used instead. This
variable defaults to gnus-subscribe-alphabetically.
If you don't want to mess with your `.newsrc' file, you can just
set the two variables gnus-options-subscribe and
gnus-options-not-subscribe. These two variables do exactly the
same as the `.newsrc' `options -n' trick. Both are regexps,
and if the new group matches the former, it will be unconditionally
subscribed, and if it matches the latter, it will be ignored.
Yet another variable that meddles here is
gnus-auto-subscribed-groups. It works exactly like
gnus-options-subscribe, and is therefore really superfluous, but I
thought it would be nice to have two of these. This variable is more
meant for setting some ground rules, while the other variable is used
more for user fiddling. By default this variable makes all new groups
that come from mail backends (nnml, nnbabyl,
nnfolder, nnmbox, and nnmh) subscribed. If you
don't like that, just set this variable to nil.
New groups that match this regexp are subscribed using
gnus-subscribe-options-newsgroup-method.
Subscription Methods
New Groups