From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17769 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only? Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:26:54 -0400 Message-ID: <87poyqotq9.fsf@moondust.localdomain> 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 1448998052 28711 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2015 19:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:27:32 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 20:27:21 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 1a3qa5-0004yO-Ue for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:27:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qa5-0004TC-0r for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qa3-0004Sz-7Z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qZz-0005OK-2O for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qZy-0005OG-Rn for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3qZr-0004c4-Je for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:27:03 +0100 Original-Received: from t8760.wpa.dal.ca ([134.190.135.96]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:27:03 +0100 Original-Received: from nljlistbox2 by t8760.wpa.dal.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:27:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: t8760.wpa.dal.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2V3uWAEx1mdYZkO+/Qm4vRVHPbA= 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:17769 Archived-At: 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.