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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

  > I've noticed a bad habit in myself (and I'm betting I'm not the only one)
  > where I'll press g in a Gnus group buffer to check for new mail whenever I
  > pass by the screen in which Gnus is running or whenever I'm waiting for
  > something else, even for a moment.  And then I get sucked back into my
  > mail, including often a lot of traffic that I don't need to see right
  > then.
  > 
  > Does anyone have a good recipe for having Gnus remember the last time I
  > checked for new mail and to force me to jump through some hoop if it's
  > been less than a configurable amount of time?  My guess is that it
  > wouldn't be horribly difficult to do this in elisp by rebinding g, but
  > it's a bit beyond my personal skill.

Someone posted a different solution for the same problem here (or
another gnus list): do not show new messages in groups is the number of
new message is under a certain threshold.  

I don't remember who it was, but maybe someone else does...