unreliable connections

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

My connections are highly unreliable (very low timeouts), i.e., if a
socket has not been used for, say, a minute, it is useless.
Gnus is therefore very hard to use: not only it is very slow (every
connection has to timeout before it is re-opened) but I have to
constantly interrupt it and restart operations that hang.
Is there a way around?
E.g., automatic reconnection on failure?
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