From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7334 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: connect timeouts? Date: 25 Jul 1996 05:50:37 +0200 Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <6ivzq4q8fay.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> <6ivu3ux8vg6.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147661 6858 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:01:01 +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 VAA12654 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:12:16 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 05:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 05:50:40 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen