From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:26:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poyqotq9.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (raw)
The news server (textnews.news.cambrium.nl) that is set as my primary
select method (i.e. in gnus-select-method) seems to have disappeared.
[It's not a terrible loss. I have other news servers in my secondary
select methods that I've been using more and more. One day I would like
to find a good comprehensive reliable news server that I can use for
both reading and writing, but after years of looking I despair of ever
finding such a beast.]
With the server not available, Gnus takes a _very_ long time to start.
(The manual describes some of the convolutions it goes through to find
an alternative news source.)
I tried starting Gnus with `gnus-no-server' but this also disables the
servers for my secondary select methods.
I'm wondering if I can safely set gnus-select-method to null or nil or
something to have Gnus just use my secondary select methods? If so what
would be the syntax?
Something like this:
(setq gnus-select-method nil)
Thanks for any advice anyone can provide.
next reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 19:26 UTC|newest]
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2015-12-01 19:26 N. Jackson [this message]
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Frank Haun
2015-12-01 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 20:18 ` Dan Christensen
2015-12-01 20:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 22:37 ` N. Jackson
2015-12-01 22:50 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-01 22:24 ` N. Jackson
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2015-12-01 23:00 ` N. Jackson
2015-12-01 23:13 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-02 6:10 ` Glyn Millington
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2015-12-01 23:21 ` Adam Sjøgren
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