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Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:

> I guess there is a reason, why Gnus uses the word 'offline' and not
> 'unplugged' when it asks me what I want. (As I told already I do not
> grok the difference between 'unplugged' and 'offline').

After you tell Gnus to go unplugged, it switches all servers to this
state.  When Gnus tries to connect to a server but can't reach it, it
switches that server to offline status.

So offline is a kind of auto-unplugged.

Also, offline is for a single server, whereas plugged/unplugged is
somewhat universal.
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