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Kibozed Groups
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   "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.


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