Re: access things like slashdot only at specified times?

[palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri)]

Doug,

Thanks, I like your solution.  I've implemented (a slight variant of)
it, and it works just the way I want.



Doug Bagley <doug@deja.com> writes:

> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> > John> in gnus-secondary-select-methods to be time-dependent.  As an
> > John> alternative, I wouldn't mind if gnus only checked nnslashdot once a
> > John> day.  I want the same to happen with one of my mail sources (a pop
> > John> server that is down a lot and that I don't get a lot of mail from, so
> > John> I would be happy to just check it once a day).
> > 
> > John> Has anyone done anything like this already?

 [snip]

> I have a different approach.  I only want nnslashdot to update when I
> want to read it.  Normally, when I press "g", I want everything but
> slashdot to update.
> 
> So here's what I did:
> 
> Instead of the recommended:
> 
>      (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>            '((nnslashdot "")))
> 
> I did this:
> - created a Slashdot topic
> - customized the topic to subscribe to groups with nnslashdot in the name
> - created the following lisp for my gnus:
> 
> (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "\M-s" 'kof:gnus-update-slashdot)
> (defun kof:gnus-update-slashdot ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let* ((gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnslashdot ""))))
>     (gnus-group-get-new-news)
>     (gnus-group-find-new-groups)))
> 
> Now, in the Group buffer, I just press M-s to update the slashdot
> groups if I feel like reading slashdot (ain't all that often
> sometimes). 

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