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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: Setting the number of attempts to connect.
Date: 13 Nov 1995 23:48:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8shh08qgg4.fsf@gymir.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Patrick Audley's message of Sat, 11 Nov 95 14:05:53 -0800

Patrick Audley <paudley@portal.ca> writes:

> 	I'm using a dialup to get news, which works well.  Until I
> started using gnus to read mail.  Now, if I'm offline and want to read
> my mail, I have to wait while gnus makes 20+ called to
> `open-network-stream' (which on my system means running the tcp
> program).  I always connect to the nntp server on the first try (when
> I'm online), so is there a way to ask gnus to only try once?  I've
> tried `gnus-no-server' but this seems not to display my backends.. :(

Put your mail groups on low levels, and all your other groups on
higher levels.  Then start Gnus with `gnus-no-server'.

-- 
Home is where the cat is.


      parent reply	other threads:[~1995-11-13 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-11 22:05 Patrick Audley
1995-11-12  2:00 ` Robert Nicholson
1995-11-13 22:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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