Re: Don't connect to news server at startup?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, lance@mail.augustmail.com wrote:

> How do I tell gnus not to connect to news server at startup.
> I only want to check for new articles if I press the spacebar
> but press M-c.
> 
> I put 
> 
>;(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'no) 
> 
> in my .gnus file but this didn't seem to help.

Make nnil your primary backend.  I think the primary backend is always
checked.

The setting you reference is for finding new newsgroups, not new
articles.  You can lower the level of any group so it won't be checked
at startup or when you press `g'; you can explicitly get the new
articles in it with `M-g'.

Ted

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