Re: Can I run Gnus with secondary select methods only?

[N. Jackson]

At 15:56 -0400 on Tuesday 2015-12-01, David Hume wrote:

> If you don't find any other solution you could just install Inn and have
> a local server on your computer which does nothing other than keep gnus
> happy.

Thanks for the reply David.

Hmm... I've never considered running a Usenet server. I doubt I could do
that on my laptop though? Surely it would require very much more in the
way of storage than a laptop could provide? And I don't have servers at
home these days.

> Maybe you can change the timeout so it doesn't take so long when the
> primary server is not available?

Yes, I had considered that, but I didn't get as far as looking up what
variable to set. The impression I get is that this is not a case of a
server that is temporarily down, but rather of one that has been
permanently removed.

I don't know if anyone else here uses textnews.news.cambrium.nl and has
any news about it. I didn't find anything at all on their webpages when
I checked a few days ago.