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David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Usually, when the server is unreachable, and you know it's temporary
>> (maybe your ethernet cable was unplugged), then saying no is the
>> right answer: Gnus will retry next time.
>
> Actually it doesn't.  That's exactly my scenario.

But you're inside a group.  Hm.  Maybe that is a situation where Gnus
doesn't expect to have to retry.  In the Group buffer, it does retry
correctly (at least it did for me).

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