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(info "(gnus) Unavailable Servers") does not mention disabling

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: (info "(gnus) Unavailable Servers") does not mention disabling
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:21:50 +0800

(info "(gnus) Server Commands") says
   Some more commands for closing, disabling, and re-opening servers are
listed in *note Unavailable Servers::.

However there on (info "(gnus) Unavailable Servers") there is NO mention
of disabling.

(occur "dis" nil)
Searched 1 buffer; no matches for `dis'

Yes, I wanted a command to disable as in

$ systemctl disable ...

whereas the sever is still visible in the server buffer, but disabled,
for today, tomorrow, forever, until I enable it again.

By the way,
‘D’
     Mark the current server as unreachable (‘gnus-server-deny-server’).
actually marks it as "denied", not "unreachable". At least mention the
official name we see.

So a new state needs to be implemented: "disabled"!

This new additional state should be like "denied" but be persistent
through restarting emacs and reboots.

Also you would need to make it a toggle, disable/enable.

Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.6)
 of 2015-09-21 on binet, modified by Debian

Message #8 received at 21630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 21630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21630: (info "(gnus) Unavailable Servers") does not mention
 disabling
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:59:36 +0100

M9< Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> (info "(gnus) Server Commands") says
>    Some more commands for closing, disabling, and re-opening servers are
> listed in *note Unavailable Servers::.
>
> However there on (info "(gnus) Unavailable Servers") there is NO mention
> of disabling.

[...]

> By the way,
> D
>      Mark the current server as unreachable (gnus-server-deny-server).
> actually marks it as "denied", not "unreachable". At least mention the
> official name we see.

This is the command that disables a server.  I've now made that more explicit.

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