From: eichin@cygnus.com
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp.
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 14:56:18 EST [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9602211956.AA09060@tito.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y3ylolwfodm.fsf@ojnk.bahnhof.se> (pp@pfawww.pp.se)
> If the machine is down, Gnus shouldn't even try to connect to the
> nntp port on it. In my ever so humble opinion.
Just note that ping isn't reliable (for example, if I can get to the
nntp server though a firewall without being able to ping the host, it
should still let me...) though that just means it should be
optional... what could another variable hurt :-)
> Hitting ^g is absolutly not what I want, that still doesn't bring me
> my mails...
Strictly speaking, the ^g should interrupt the connect, allowing it to
fail, and gnus could then "catch" that failure and continue on to
non-news stuff... or at least I think that makes sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-02-21 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-02-21 18:02 Per Persson
1996-02-21 18:39 ` eichin
1996-02-21 19:51 ` Per Persson
1996-02-21 19:56 ` eichin [this message]
1996-02-21 20:19 ` Per Persson
1996-02-22 1:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-22 7:54 ` Per Persson
1996-02-22 18:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-21 22:29 ` Greg Stark
1996-02-22 6:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-22 23:28 ` Wes Hardaker
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