From: John Twilley <jmt@nda.nda.com>
Subject: Re: get new mail without new news
Date: 27 May 1997 15:09:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wvvu3jobukb.fsf@nda.nda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1baflglpy7.fsf@blackbird.mitre.org>
>>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg <dsg@linus.mitre.org> writes:
[re: reading new mail without checking for new news]
David> Look a bit more closely, it's in there.
Well, this part is in there, yes. I wasn't clear. :-)
David> Set your mail group(s) to level 2 (news groups are level 3
David> by default). Then do a `2 g' to fetch only the mail groups
David> when you want to pull in new mail.
How do you set a group's level? This is what wasn't clearly
documented, where 'clearly documented' is defined as 'what I can find
in a manual'. :-)
David> For limiting to email, this is what I do: I run M-x
David> gnus-no-server instead of M-x gnus. This gives me a
David> mail-only gnus. When I want to read news I do a `3 g' and
David> all my nntp groups get fetched (as well as any new mail
David> that might be in my spool files). Unfortunately there's no
David> way that I know of to only read news, but in general that's
David> not much of a problem. I could probably separate them in
David> topic mode and hide the mail groups, but I have other uses
David> for topics. Anyway, when I'm done with news, I do a `2 l'
David> (note that's l, not g) and my gnus session will only be for
David> mail again (that is, typing g only fetches from my mail
David> spools).
Cool trick -- once I learn how to set levels for groups!
Jack.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-05-27 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-27 17:18 John Twilley
1997-05-27 18:39 ` David S. Goldberg
1997-05-27 19:09 ` John Twilley [this message]
1997-05-28 8:13 ` Steinar Bang
1997-05-28 15:53 ` Daniel Simms
1997-05-27 21:59 ` Mats Lidell
1997-05-27 18:46 ` Aaron Ucko
1997-05-27 22:34 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-05-30 20:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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