From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7340 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael Welsh Duggan" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: connect timeouts? Date: 25 Jul 1996 08:57:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6ivzq4q8fay.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> <6ivu3ux8vg6.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147666 6893 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA17460 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 06:19:55 -0700 Original-Received: from maru.schenley.com (maru.schenley.com [206.62.188.70]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 14:58:01 +0200 Original-Received: by maru.schenley.com from localhost (router,SLmailNT V2.0); Thu, 25 Jul 1996 08:57:50 EDT Original-Received: by maru.schenley.com from maru.schenley.com (127.0.0.1::mail daemon; unverified,SLmailNT V2.0); Thu, 25 Jul 1996 08:57:49 EDT Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 25 Jul 1996 05:50:37 +0200 Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7340 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > Michael Lamoureux 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)