From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17778 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only? Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: <87egf5ai62.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <84wpsy9c3m.fsf@example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449010917 7753 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2015 23:01:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 23:01:57 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 02 00:01:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tvZ-0000U3-SS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:01:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tvZ-0005GK-D9 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tuY-0003Jz-8m for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tuT-00068a-Aj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tuT-00068S-4W for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3tuR-00072h-5x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:31 +0100 Original-Received: from blk-30-140-134.eastlink.ca ([96.30.140.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:31 +0100 Original-Received: from nljlistbox2 by blk-30-140-134.eastlink.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: blk-30-140-134.eastlink.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Utg3fyqPzxSsBxbIuO4Sjd7c16U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17778 Archived-At: At 15:56 -0400 on Tuesday 2015-12-01, David Hume wrote: > If you don't find any other solution you could just install Inn and have > a local server on your computer which does nothing other than keep gnus > happy. Thanks for the reply David. Hmm... I've never considered running a Usenet server. I doubt I could do that on my laptop though? Surely it would require very much more in the way of storage than a laptop could provide? And I don't have servers at home these days. > Maybe you can change the timeout so it doesn't take so long when the > primary server is not available? Yes, I had considered that, but I didn't get as far as looking up what variable to set. The impression I get is that this is not a case of a server that is temporarily down, but rather of one that has been permanently removed. I don't know if anyone else here uses textnews.news.cambrium.nl and has any news about it. I didn't find anything at all on their webpages when I checked a few days ago.