From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2863 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: how to declare a server denied at startup ? Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:57:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85oeysnso7.fsf.hcanon@alussinan.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669140 16616 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:20 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mailserver.softechnics.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1060880273 30879 65.247.80.131 (14 Aug 2003 16:57:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Aug 2003 16:57:53 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LlIq8dzQdKrEnjSVtZ0O2FlG1gg= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3003 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3003 Tue Jan 17 17:31:20 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2863 Archived-At: Hubert Canon writes: > One of the news server is down. So the startup is way too slow. The > failure is only temporary, so I don't want to unsubscribe nor kill > the corresponding groups. You might start with gnus-no-server if you just want mail, or set nntp-connection-timeout from nil to a value in seconds. -- Thanks, Jeff ,---- | Jeffery B. Rancier | | Softechnics | a METTLER TOLEDO company `----