Re: launching gnus with multiple news servers, how to only open ONE?

[Peter Petersen]

* Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> schrieb:

>> I normally only use _one_ regular news servers, the other news servers
>> are only there for the odd down time of the main server or for the
>> occasional look in otherwise unavailable newsgroups. And since some of
>> the servers are very slow and delay gnus' start-up considerably I would
>> like to launch gnus and only have _one_ server (the main server) opened
>> automatically.
>
> I'd recommend the following:
>
> - Use topics mode...
> |      (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
> - Put the other servers into the "other server" topic.
> - Set the level of those groups to a higher value than
>   `gnus-activate-level':
> - If you want to open the "other server" groups, go to the topic in
>   the group buffer and press `M-g':
....


Many thanks, seems to work fine.

I have another question, but I will post a new message, for you and also
others to see it.


bye
Peter