Re: Getting new mail without checking the news

[Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com>]

Peter Svaar <peter@svaar.no> writes:

> can you please be more precise? 

Yeah, sorry, I was up too late, & too sleepy to go reread about
'gnus-no-server', so I was just vague instead :-/  Catches up with you.

>                                 ok, I set my nnml-groups to a priority
> level of 1 or 2, and then i call gnus with the numeric argument? how?

'C-u-2-M-x-gnus' (or, the equal 'M-2-M-x-gnus'; typing preference)

> and for me, I usually have gnus running all the time, since I get mail
> quite often and I read news once in an hour or so. how can I call this
> numeric argument with the "g" command?

It'll take the same arguments, 'C-u-2-g'.  Just opens the needed
servers.  (God, Lars is cool...whoops, gotta sound 'adult' here)

The answers given about 'gnus-no-server' work fine, too, I'm sure, but I
thought you didn't need to do that, and tested it just now.  It worked
fine for me, and both seemed to behave the same--if you listed all your
groups, the nnspool-ers would come up with an asterisk.  But if you hit
plain 'g', even the gnus-no-server gnus would read them.  (I'd wondered
if that'd be different, but it seems a gnus is a gnus, unless of course
it's the famous Mr. Ed.  Crap, wait, that's my name.  Y'know, when I met
rms, he reacted with the ol' 'Mr. Ed' schtick.  Don't meet your heroes.
:-)

See, this is what happens when I post at 2am and don't keep it short and
sweet...  So: ARG-gnus, gnus-no-server--authorities, are they pretty much
the same, or do subtleties lurk?  

Thanks,

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Ed Donovan			edonovan@world.std.com