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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> The easiest would be if I could tell gnus not to read ~/.gnus,
>> then I could just load what ever I wanted.
>
> Maybe "emacs -q" should abstain from reading ~/.gnus, as it abstains
> from reading ~/.emacs.
>
> If this doesn't happen, then maybe it's a bug?  What do people think?
>
> ("emacs -batch" implies the "-q" option.)
>
Even when running gnus-agent-batch ~/.gnus is loaded
$ emacs -batch -no-site-file -f gnus-agent-batch 
hello world -- ~/.gnus

So maybe that is a bug.

Reiners solution fixed me up for what I wanted.