Re: Couldn't open server?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:

> A thought: it would be nice if Gnus did one of 2 things: either (1)
> didn't try to open servers which were denied last time upon pressing
> g in the group buffer, but tried nonetheless if asked specifically to
> open a particular group,

Gnus does this.  `M-g' on a group will try to activate the group even
if the server was previously denied.

> or (2) kept track of last time the server was
> really denied, and if that time exceeded a certain amount (e.g. 2
> hours or something), reset the "denied" flag. Otherwise, with Gnus
> constantly running, I for example now and again have to go to the
> server buffer and un-deny my news server (which is not too reliable,
> unfortunately)...

I don't really like "automatic fixes", because the user is usually
more knowledgeable about these things than a program can ever be.
Trying to re-contact a server can be a time-consuming task if the
network connection is wonky.

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