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>>>>> Felix Lee writes:

 > I'd much rather gnus had a structure like:
 >   server
 >     group list
 >       group 

 > but this is probably too major a structural change.  yes?

There are two ways I can see to do this:

* Using current Gnus:

  Use topics, one topic per server.  This gets you _almost_ what you
  want; you'll have to expand/unexpand topics on your own, and use M-g
  on a topic to get new news.

* Enhancements to Gnus:

  Add two commands:

  * gnus-servers (gnus-start-server-buffer?)--enters Gnus and goes
    straight to the server buffer, without opening any connections to
    servers first.

  * gnus-server-read-server-newsrc--produces a buffer very similar to
    the group buffer, but with only groups from that server listed;
    quitting this buffer returns to the server buffer.

Lars, the first command might be useful in any case; marking servers
as denied has been much more successful for dealing with problematic
servers than using gnus-no-server.

--Paul