From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79202 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Cannot recover if gmane goes offline Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:29:59 +0200 Message-ID: <874o3cijqg.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87hb7yw0cx.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309109456 28378 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2011 17:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:30:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27499@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 26 19:30:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QatAa-0002nc-EU for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:30:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qat9v-0003f3-Hu; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qat9u-0003eu-1n for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qat9p-0000ZW-9P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qat9m-0005bi-IA for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE9B212F6 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:30:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=ooB6gqNBaw444EYgoa9YXSW8Lr8=; b=FtzzZntpbE1Kk7/Q7QuvacfTl0Xw8goQ3OfyTBd22UzQL4mcAcrtetbCR2972vNndERpAwn/cKh9iAj9lG2+pbB4hGeqMQH5P9zXY8AJAaftxK2g1n/G0JhsMuj4DKddRNIFr2u0Wx7hYdZVLkzuhD8lUUltxmDpNMNKPjQYuCM= X-Sasl-enc: hI5v/rwzAeYVeMfWJYz70fMI1XdMVG5W5jzWzVzHhrvZ 1309109401 Original-Received: from thinkpad (cust.static.213-200-254-181.cybernet.ch [213.200.254.181]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36CB144953D for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:30:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:51:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79202 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Hi Lars, >> Lately, my gmane server frequently goes offline, or better, the gmane >> nntp select method is shown as (offline) in the server buffer. I >> have no clue why it's always Gmane while other nntp and IMAP servers >> don't show that issue. > > [...] > >> Anyway, when I fetch new news then, all my gmane/gwene groups show up >> with thousands of unread messages. > > That's bizarre. If Gnus can't get any response from the server, it > should simply list all the groups from that server with a "*" in front > of the group name. That's the theory, yes. ;-) BTW: The problem is not Gmane specific. At least once, the bad server was gmail. It's just that it happens with Gmane much more frequently. Bye, Tassilo -- Sent from my Emacs