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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> /. is down, so getting new news from nnslashdot takes a long time,

You should be able to `C-g' out of that when `g'-ing...

> then fails.  To avoid the "takes long time" part, I tried to enter the
> server buffer and Deny the server.  However, gnus still tries to
> contact slashdot.  Shouldn't it ignore denied servers?

It should.  Fix in CVS in a few jiffies.

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