From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5214 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp. Date: 22 Feb 1996 02:12:53 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9602211956.AA09060@tito.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145852 32162 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:52 +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 (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA21090 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:55:25 -0800 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 02:12:54 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 02:12:53 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: pp@pfawww.pp.se's message of 21 Feb 1996 21:19:07 +0100 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5214 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5214 pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson) writes: > Hey this is emacs! > > gnus-use-ping If we want to use ping. > gnus-ping-command-list Which ping to use. > gnus-ping-timeout How long to wait for 'host is alive'. > gnus-ping-continously Ping other machine while reading news. > [...] ROTFL! I'm tempted to put this in the manual somewhere... :-) Anyways, pinging the machine before attempting to connect to it might be a good idea. If this is done by other packages, could somebody send me example code? -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."