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>>>>> "DM" == David Masterson writes:

 DM> I have subscribed to several newsgroups on my primary news server as
 DM> well as a few foreign newsgroups on a couple of other news servers.
 DM> Occasionally, although my primary server is up, one of the other news
 DM> servers is down temporarily.  Therefore, when I start 'gnus', it hangs
 DM> waiting for this server to answer the NNTP request.  What's the best
 DM> way to work around this?

 DM> * I know I could use 'gnus-no-server', but then only the foreign
 DM> newsgroups are visible in the Group buffer.

 DM> * The 'gnus-fetch-group' seems to be the long-winded way around this,
 DM> but I'd have to remember the list of groups I'm interested in.

 DM> Is there a better way?

I'd install a local news server. Say, leafnode. (Some people also say,
nntpcache is a good alternative, but I haven't tried it; As for Windows,
I'm aware of similar program called Hamster.)

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