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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup, Re: Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup, Re: Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 19:39:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyulen81.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87le9a9cmw.fsf@gmx.net>

James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net> writes:

> Husain Alshehhi wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to prevent gnus to get new news at startup time, and
>> only do it manually?
>
> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> The command `gnus-no-server' will likely do what you want.
>
> IIRC this will only stop the primary select method.

By default it will only activate groups at levels 1 and 2. In my case,
anyway, that only connects to the nndraft server.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-01  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <47073.0785092869$1703954497@news.gmane.org>
2023-12-30 19:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-12-31  3:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-31 23:27 ` Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup, Re: Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup, " James Thomas
2024-01-01  3:39   ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2024-01-02  0:48   ` Dan Christensen
2024-01-02  2:35     ` Bob Newell
2024-01-03  3:34 ` Husain Alshehhi
     [not found] ` <30352.9598562577$1704252905@news.gmane.org>
2024-01-03 12:09   ` Eric S Fraga
2024-01-03 15:23     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-01-03 16:06       ` Eric S Fraga

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