Re: Agent and 'Couldn't open server'

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:
>
>> [ ... ] forgot to tell the Agent that gnus is unplugged...

>> [ ... ] and wanted to read news. Gnus tells me, that it can't
>> connect and offers me to go offline.  [ ... ] I answer 'n' and do 'J J'
>> instead.  But when I try to enter a group Gnus still tells me that it
>> 'Couldn't open server'.

> Well, you left off one additional connection state: denied.  If you
> are online but unable to connect to a server, you are given the choice
> between changing the server's state from online to either offline
> (i.e. use the agent) or denied (i.e. do not use the agent).  You
> choosed the later which is why you're getting the "couldn't open
> server" message.

So you say choosing not to go offline implies to switch to the 'denied'
state which means not to use the agent...  Ahh, I see. I did not get
that right.  [ testing... ] Yes, answering 'y' does what I want.

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').

Thank you,
Robert.