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Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:
> I've been using a foreign server which is not a secondary select
> method, and I find that gnus startup insists on trying to contact it
> anyway.  I don't know whether it's looking for an active file or what, 

It's because that servers' groups' levels are above
gnus-activate-level or gnus-active-foreign-newsgroups.

Set their levels to higher (worse) values, and Gnus will stop
bothering with them on startup.