>> "Andrew A. Raines" <aaraines@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> nnrss, however, works intermittently.  Often when updating a group,
>>> Emacs will hang indefinitely.

> Adam Duck <duck@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:

>> I have a strange problem, too: whenever I make multiple
>> rss-feeds update and make emacs lose its focus, emacs
>> will stay hogging all CPU time.

>>>>> In <87hdlpcc6r.fsf@mid.packer.its.vanderbilt.edu> Andrew A. Raines wrote:

> Yes, this happens to me too.  Any updating of nnrss groups
> only works 10% of the time.  However, when it fails and I
> hit C-g to regain control, if I immediately try an update
> it will generally work.

I found the way to reproduce the problem.  It is `g', not `M-g'.
I'm not sure but it may occur only when using the http proxy.  I
also found the way to fix it; it is to apply the following patch
to url.el.