recovering from `G a'

recovering from `G a'

[Shep Proudfoot]

The other day, I accidentally pressed `G a'
which I guess invokes some kind of efs 
retrieval of the ding archives and creates
a new group based on them.  I'm behind a 
gateway, so this failed immediately with an
unknown host message.

The problem is that I now can't read news because
every time I start up Gnus, this ftp process
starts and fails leaving me looking at it's
buffer instead of at my groups.  Restarting
XEmacs doesn't help either.  How do I tell
Gnus to stop trying to fetch these archives,
I have no interest in them.  

Many Thanks.

*buffer*
open ftp.hpc.uh.edu
ftp.hpc.uh.edu: unknown host
ftp> 
Process *ftp ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu* kill
open ftp.hpc.uh.edu
ftp.hpc.uh.edu: unknown host
ftp> 
Process *ftp ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu* kill
 

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Re: recovering from `G a'

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Start with M-x gnus-no-server so Gnus will try to start only high
priority groups.  Then `L' to get the list of all groups, and then
`C-k' to toast it.