From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11582 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 2 things Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:44:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151268 31188 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA08387 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:28:13 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA09908 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:26:30 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA08195 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:25:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 05:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 27055 invoked by uid 504); 13 Jul 1997 03:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27052 invoked from network); 13 Jul 1997 03:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: from jhuml2.hcf.jhu.edu (128.220.2.87) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 1997 03:45:46 -0000 Original-Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-7 #18666) id <01IL61I9T3QO8WW4LR@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:45:18 EDT Original-Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-7 #18666) with ESMTP id <01IL61HGIJ1491VTQ5@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:44:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jdc@localhost) by chow.mat.jhu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA28387; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:44:31 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "07 Jul 1997 11:15:46 +0200" Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.63/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 32 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1972 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11582 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11582 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > jdc@math.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) writes: > > > Ahh, I see. It seems to me that it would be better have > > `gnus-no-server' behave exactly like `gnus' except that the server is > > not contacted. The start-up level is an orthogonal issue, and one can > > always do `C-u 2 gnus-no-server' if one wants. > > The user interface won't change. > > > Of course, I should be able to obtain the behaviour I want by doing > > (gnus nil t), right? The nil indicates no startup level, and the t > > means that gnus shouldn't connect to the server. However, when you > > do this, gnus *does* connect to the server. Two places where this > > happens are indicated below by <------- in the right margin: > > I've now fixed the first, but for the latter you can just set > `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to nil. > > Anyways, the whole thing is a mess. Quassia Gnus will allow you to > enter Gnus through the server buffer which will let you pick and > choose which servers to contact. > > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > -- Dan Christensen jdc@math.jhu.edu