Variable: gnus-ignored-newsgroups

gnus-ignored-newsgroups is a customizable variable defined in gnus-start.el.gz.

Value

"^to\\.\\|^[0-9.        ]+\\( \\|$\\)\\|^[\"][\"#'()]"

Documentation

A regexp to match uninteresting newsgroups in the active file.

Any lines in the active file matching this regular expression are removed from the newsgroup list before anything else is done to it, thus making them effectively non-existent.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-ignored-newsgroups
  (mapconcat #'identity
	     '("^to\\."			; not "real" groups
	       "^[0-9. \t]+\\( \\|$\\)"	; all digits in name
	       "^[\"][\"#'()]"	; bogus characters
	       )
	     "\\|")
  "A regexp to match uninteresting newsgroups in the active file.
Any lines in the active file matching this regular expression are
removed from the newsgroup list before anything else is done to it,
thus making them effectively non-existent."
  :group 'gnus-group-new
  :type 'regexp)