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Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu> writes:
> 
> Also, gnus freezes if I start it when not connected to the net.
> Is there any way to avoid this, or at least to catch `C-g' and
> continue with the other servers?

If that's with FSF emacs it could be open-network-stream retrying
gethostbyname forever, see src/process.c.  I posted bug-gnu-emacs
about this not so long ago, although probably it would've been known
already.  xemacs limits its retries, and has done for a while.