James Thomas <jim...@gmx.net> writes: > Husain Alshehhi wrote: > >> Is there a way to prevent gnus to get new news at startup time, and >> only do it manually? > > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> The command `gnus-no-server' will likely do what you want. > > IIRC this will only stop the primary select method.
By default it will only activate groups at levels 1 and 2. In my case, anyway, that only connects to the nndraft server.