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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>:
> 
> > Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> 
> >> Would it be possible to make Gnus open agentized denied servers in
> >> the unplugged state, without having to open the servers in the
> >> server buffer?
> 
> > Wouldn't that be kind of unexpected?  If you tell Gnus the server is
> > denied, you'd expect it to remain denied, wouldn't you?
> 
> I didn't.  I expected "denied" to deal with network traffic, and I
> expected to be able to read agent-cached articles in unplugged mode
> for groups belonging to these servers.

I second that. The expected behaviour of a failed connection tothe
server should be: 'I give you as much as I have' instead of 'I simply
deniy acces'. perhaps we need another state for failed connects
instead of 'denied'.

Greetings
		Christoph