From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25361 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Foreign, primary, secondary, activate levels, prefix args, ... Date: 25 Sep 1999 13:08:59 -0400 Organization: People's Front Against MWM Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87905u9avo.fsf@x2-176.mtl.Generation.NET> References: <87aeqg81fl.fsf@x2-176.mtl.Generation.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162759 13568 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13582 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:12:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB20532; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 12:12:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 25 Sep 1999 12:11:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23424 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 12:11:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparkle.Generation.NET (sparkle.Generation.NET [205.205.119.4]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13554 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from x2-176.mtl.Generation.NET (brnstndkramden.acf.nyu.edu@x2-105.mtl.Generation.NET [209.205.10.13]) by sparkle.Generation.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA15819 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:09:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Sep 1999 11:45:31 +0200" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25361 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25361 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Greg Stark writes: > > > I'm tearing my hair out here. I can't seem to get gnus to not activate one of > > the servers serving groups in my group list. Nor can I get it to not activate > > the primary server, even when none of the groups on it are at the current > > activation level. > > Perhaps `M-x gnus-no-server' will help? Yes, that's how I've been starting gnus all the time now. But then it doesn't check for new newsgroups in my mail newsgroups. And I can't even find any command to trigger it to do so (find-new-news activates my primary server even though it's not on the list). And it just seems weird to me that there's no way to configure it so M-x gnus dtrt. -- greg