Re: connect timeouts?

[Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu>]

 "lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

lars> Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:
>> I figure if I'm stupid enough to keep trying to connecting to a
>> server that I'm not allowed to access, you should let me beat my
>> head against the wall until it bleeds...

lars> Well, yes.  But no.  :-) Say you read ten foreign groups from
lars> the "nntp:flaky" server, and you press `g'.  Gnus will then try
lars> to activate these ten groups.  If the first attempt at
lars> connecting fails, it's probably not very productive to try to
lars> reconnect to the server 9 more times?

No, but mine is not a foreign server...  Does gnus not keep track of
which is the primary server and which are foreign?


lars> Perhaps there should be a time-out to the denials, but I don't
lars> think so.

perhaps.  Or maybe it should just skip that server for the remainder
of *this* pass (i.e., until the 'g' operation has completed).  That
way I get the benefit that you mention as well as the operation that I
want.


lars> Just use `^' to see the server status and remove the denials at
lars> will.

I'll take a look at this...


thanks,
Michael