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Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io> writes:

> Hello,
>
> When gnus starts (M-x gnus), it automatically get new news. This is a
> reasonable default. But when I start gnus multiple times to look up a
> message, I have to wait few seconds for it to start. Is there a way to
> prevent gnus to get new news at startup time, and only do it manually?

The command `gnus-no-server' will likely do what you want.