Re: Startup issues and server availability

Hi Nurullah,

Firstly, thanks for your reply. 

i don't actually use Gnus for mail or feeds - i use Mutt for the
former and Liferea for the latter, though i'd like to move to Gnus for
feeds once HTTP digest authentication support (a sine qua non for me)
is stable.

However, your post nevertheless put me on the track to the solution
to at least one of the issues i mentioned. In checking out the
gnus-activate-level variable, i noticed it was set by default to
'6', resulting in Gnus doing processing relating to groups i'm not
subscribed to! Setting it to '5' made Gnus behave as i'd expect -
the time to start up and download new headers from subscribed groups
is now /much/ better. 

Many thanks!

Alexis.