From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29155 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shenghuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: access things like slashdot only at specified times? Date: 09 Feb 2000 18:51:18 -0500 Organization: U of Rochester Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nzotalytl.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165875 1166 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:04:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687EDD051E for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:51:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB22030; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:51:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:51:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA19863 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:50:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.166]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F02D051E for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:50:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.81]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from shenghuo.dhs.org ([24.95.208.108]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by shenghuo.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA26858; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:51:19 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: tiger.jia.vnet: zsh set sender to zsh@cs.rochester.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q In-Reply-To: palmieri@math.washington.edu's message of "09 Feb 2000 15:27:43 -0800" Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29155 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29155 >>>>> "John" == John H Palmieri 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