Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point?

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

[To whoever is moderating this list: please discard my old posting,
which got stalled due to containing a word that begins with "unsub" and
ends with "scribe" in the 4th line...]

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> on Tue May 26 2009, David Engster <deng-AT-randomsample.de> wrote:
>> * foreign methods: won't be queried for new groups on startup. Server
>>   vanishes if you [DELETED] from all its groups.
>
> Oh, that one's interesting.  My IMAP server is the native method right
> now, and the startup query can be painful to wait through!

Does setting

(setq gnus-read-active-file nil
      gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil)

speed that up?

>> Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste. Some people like to have
>> their full configuration in .gnus, and not in .newsrc.eld, since the
>> latter isn't meant to be edited by hand.
>
> The *full* configuration?  Does that mean it's possible to store the
> subscriptions in .gnus as well?

Uhm... I don't think so. Better make that "most of the configuration". ;-)

-David