Re: connect timeouts?

["Michael Welsh Duggan" <md5i@schenley.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > lars> Perhaps there should be a time-out to the denials, but I don't
> > lars> think so.
> > 
> > perhaps.  Or maybe it should just skip that server for the remainder
> > of *this* pass (i.e., until the 'g' operation has completed).  That
> > way I get the benefit that you mention as well as the operation that I
> > want.
> 
> Well, I would find it supremely annoying if Gnus were to try to
> reconnect to a server that's down each time I press `g'.  (I might
> just want to re-scan my mail groups, for instance.)

I agree.  However, I think that this _should_ be the default behavior
when one presses M-g on a inoperative group.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@schenley.com)