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GNU Info (gnus)Kibozed GroupsKibozed Groups -------------- "Kibozing" is defined by OED as "grepping through (parts of) the news feed". `nnkiboze' is a back end that will do this for you. Oh joy! Now you can grind any NNTP server down to a halt with useless requests! Oh happiness! To create a kibozed group, use the `G k' command in the group buffer. The address field of the `nnkiboze' method is, as with `nnvirtual', a regexp to match groups to be "included" in the `nnkiboze' group. That's where most similarities between `nnkiboze' and `nnvirtual' end. In addition to this regexp detailing component groups, an `nnkiboze' group must have a score file to say what articles are to be included in the group (Note: Scoring). You must run `M-x nnkiboze-generate-groups' after creating the `nnkiboze' groups you want to have. This command will take time. Lots of time. Oodles and oodles of time. Gnus has to fetch the headers from all the articles in all the component groups and run them through the scoring process to determine if there are any articles in the groups that are to be part of the `nnkiboze' groups. Please limit the number of component groups by using restrictive regexps. Otherwise your sysadmin may become annoyed with you, and the NNTP site may throw you off and never let you back in again. Stranger things have happened. `nnkiboze' component groups do not have to be alive--they can be dead, and they can be foreign. No restrictions. The generation of an `nnkiboze' group means writing two files in `nnkiboze-directory', which is `~/News/' by default. One contains the NOV header lines for all the articles in the group, and the other is an additional `.newsrc' file to store information on what groups have been searched through to find component articles. Articles marked as read in the `nnkiboze' group will have their NOV lines removed from the NOV file. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |