From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7331 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Lamoureux Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: connect timeouts? Date: 24 Jul 1996 12:31:05 -0400 Message-ID: <6ivu3ux8vg6.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> References: <6ivzq4q8fay.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147658 6850 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00767 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:54:46 -0700 Original-Received: from erpland.engin.umich.edu (lamour@erpland.engin.umich.edu [141.213.30.72]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:31:20 +0200 Original-Received: (lamour@localhost) by erpland.engin.umich.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id MAA11461; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:31:09 -0400 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 24 Jul 1996 06:46:00 +0200 Original-Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7331 "lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: lars> Michael Lamoureux 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