From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60013 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: unreliable connections Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:00:15 -0500 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111176770 6971 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 20:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8554@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 18 21:12:50 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCNpI-0006JJ-C4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:12:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DCNi7-0003O4-00; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:43 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DCNhz-0003Nw-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DCNhw-0001In-Bt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:32 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DCNhu-0002op-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:04:30 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DCNeh-0004yr-S8 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:01:11 +0100 Original-Received: from fw-ext.alphatech.com ([198.112.236.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:01:11 +0100 Original-Received: from sds by fw-ext.alphatech.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:01:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fw-ext.alphatech.com Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hrfB1TSMudLy53+9QL0AUsm/4ZI= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8554@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60013 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? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers.