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From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: access things like slashdot only at specified times?
Date: 09 Feb 2000 18:51:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2nzotalytl.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: palmieri@math.washington.edu's message of "09 Feb 2000 15:27:43 -0800"

>>>>> "John" == John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> writes:

John> Gnus v5.8.3
John> GNU Emacs 20.4.2 (alphaev5-dec-osf4.0f, X toolkit) of Mon Oct 11 1999
John> on hilbert1


John> I would like gnus to do the following: when getting new news between
John> say 10:00 in the morning and 5:00 in the afternoon, I don't want gnus
John> to check slashdot.  So I guess I want the entry 

John>   '(nnslashdot "")

John> in gnus-secondary-select-methods to be time-dependent.  As an
John> alternative, I wouldn't mind if gnus only checked nnslashdot once a
John> day.  I want the same to happen with one of my mail sources (a pop
John> server that is down a lot and that I don't get a lot of mail from, so
John> I would be happy to just check it once a day).

John> Has anyone done anything like this already?

You can use agent to cover nnslashdot, put `:plugged t' in those mail
sources which need to be checked regularly and set
gnus-agent-send-mail-function to message-send-mail-with-sendmail.

Between 10AM to 5PM, you can run gnus unplugged. Otherwise, plug it.

-- 
Shenghuo



  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-09 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-09 23:27 John H. Palmieri
2000-02-09 23:51 ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
2000-02-10  2:12   ` Doug Bagley
2000-02-15 22:00     ` John H. Palmieri

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