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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Aside from my very specific situation, I can think of a number of
> cases where intelligent handling of interrupted communication with the
> news server would come in very handy.  Since this is Emacs, all it
> would take is an intelligent `quit' condition-case catcher.
> 
> Would it be consider useful enough for Gnus?  Would it be possible to
> implement cleanly, given the current abstraction model?

Yes, I think so.  We could just catch the `quit' in Message and close
the connection if it was found.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen