Re: connect timeouts?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:

> Why?  Our news server gets flakey every once in a while, and if I try
> to connect at the wrong time, then gnus is basically useless for
> reading news until I restart (I can, of course, still read mail, but
> that's not the point).  This is silly, because as soon as the news
> server is rebooted, it's ok, but how am I supposed to know when that
> is if gnus keeps refusing to connect?  (there are actually a handful
> of ways, but none of them are as easy as hitting 'g' ;-)
> 
> I figure if I'm stupid enough to keep trying to connecting to a server
> that I'm not allowed to access, you should let me beat my head against
> the wall until it bleeds...

Well, yes.  But no.  :-) Say you read ten foreign groups from the
"nntp:flaky" server, and you press `g'.  Gnus will then try to
activate these ten groups.  If the first attempt at connecting fails,
it's probably not very productive to try to reconnect to the server 9
more times?

Perhaps there should be a time-out to the denials, but I don't think
so.  Just use `^' to see the server status and remove the denials at
will. 

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen