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Igor Sosa Mayor <joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty sure this has been asked trillions of times, but I am not
> able to find any post with this information. In the info page I can not
> find it either.
>
> The question is very simple: is there any variable to prevent gnus from
> doing a get-new-news at start?
>
> Many thanks in advance. 

You can give the `gnus' command a numerical argument to tell it not to
open any groups below that number. Also check out `gnus-no-server',
which might serve the same purpose...