From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/963 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Triggs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to handle when a server is down? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:31:35 +1000 Organization: Web One Internet http://webone.com.au Message-ID: <87bs7ucktk.fsf@thweeble.telefunken.dyn.ml.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667816 9116 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:25 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!iridium.webone.com.au Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: iridium.webone.com.au Original-X-Trace: merki.connect.com.au 1030073557 25880 210.8.44.3 (23 Aug 2002 03:32:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@connect.com.au Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Aug 2002 03:32:37 GMT User-Agent: Oort Gnus v0.08 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bdfTiRtp0/c8fw22UkV6XW0CS3U= X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-ctb0196.webone.com.au X-Original-Trace: 23 Aug 2002 13:32:34 +1000, dial-ctb0196.webone.com.au Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1103 Original-Lines: 30 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1103 Tue Jan 17 17:28:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:963 Archived-At: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > C-u 1 M-x gnus RET will start Gnus, but only contacting servers that > have level 1 groups. I think. So set the levels for all your groups > appropriately, and then if you want to see groups with levels up to, > say, 3, do C-u 3 M-x gnus RET. See C-h f gnus RET and the "Group > Levels" node in the manual. I've had similar problems when accessing groups whose server might be down. One slight complication with using group levels to solve the problem is that if the server for groups on level 3 is down, and you're interested in checking the groups on level 4, hitting '4g' still suffers from the delay as it also checks groups on level 3. I'm not sure if the numeric argument for running gnus would behave in the same way, but I've got a feeling it would. Unfortunately, I don't know if there's any better way than using group levels as Paul describes. If you've only got one server which is occasionally down, this isn't an issue anyway, and you can ignore everything I've written :o) If anyone has figured out a different workaround for having multiple servers which may or may not be down, I'd be keen to hear them. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Triggs