Re: Denying a server on purpose at startup

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> | Can some one tell me how to deny a certain server on startup of gnus

> I think you can do that by setting the group levels below some connection
> threshold, like 6 or 7.
>
> Is it an option for you to maintain separate Gnus configurations and
> separate newsrc files for "everything but cox" and "cox"?  That's more of a
> sledge hammer approach, but it works for some.

For short term situation I think your first notion will do all I
need. I'd forgotten about that, but have used it in the past.

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> Untested, but based on a quick read of gnus-start.el perhaps it would
> work to add a an appropriate call to gnus-server-deny-server to
> gnus-read-newsrc-el-hook?

Now this sounds even easier with less side effects, ifonly I would
finally learn enough lisp to do something probably fairly simple like
you described.. thanks ... I'll take a look.