  We present a preliminary comparison of the post-nova population with that of
general cataclysmic variables (CVs). We particularly focus on the mass-transfer
rate and its potential relation to the nova eruption. We find that the known
post-nova sample exclusively consists of high mass-transfer CVs, but that this
is more likely to be due to the shorter recurrent time for those systems,
rather than the mass-transfer rate being affected by the eruption.
Nevertheless, we find evidence for such an effect for specific post-novae, and
that it is potentially related to the binary separation and to presence or
absence of an accretion disc.
