From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: not reading news, only email
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:33:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9r6kplr0p.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709221509.l8MF99Ki004875@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu>
On Sat, Sep 22 2007, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> I have always used gnus to read both news and email. But now I have a
> system where I only use it for mail.
> Everytime I start gnus I get the message
> "Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)"
> Obviously I am not subscribed to any newsgroup on that machine.
>
> What is the best way to tell gnus not to try nntp?
Customize `gnus-select-method' to use the nnnil back end instead of
nntp, e.g. (nnnil ""). Alternatively, use your preferred mail back
end as primary select method (`gnus-select-method' instead of
`gnus-secondary-select-methods').
I notice that nnnil is not documented in the manual. From `nnnil.el':
;;; Commentary:
;; nnnil is a Gnus backend that provides no groups or articles. It's useful
;; as a primary select method when you want all your real select methods to
;; be secondary or foreign.
> Should it even try it if there's no subscription to any newsgroup?
I think it should. Gnus automatically subscribes some groups and the
user probably wants to start subscribing when no groups are subscribed
yet.
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-23 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 15:09 Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-23 8:08 ` CHENG Gao
2007-09-23 8:33 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
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2007-09-23 5:03 ` Nelson Ferreira
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