From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71859 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Better error reporting and stuff on startup Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:58:23 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: <87ocbk5tn4.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285520426 2829 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 17:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:00:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20232@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 26 19:00:25 2010 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 1OzuaL-0008HV-Tr for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:00:22 +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 1Ozua2-0007xQ-0h; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:00:02 -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 1Ozua0-0007x8-DU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzuZw-000171-4N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzuZv-0001cI-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:59:55 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzuZr-0008C2-PJ for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:59:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71859 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Didier Verna writes: > >> But you said that you want to "display them at the end... somehow", so >> poping a new buffer sounds pretty much like it. Besides, error messages >> occurring at startup kind of deserve an intrusion IMHO. > > No, most of them are just that one of the 13 servers you're connecting > to didn't respond. It's nice to know that it happened, but it's not an > exceptional situation. Really? I mean, why would I try to connect to a server and not be surprised if it fails? -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.