From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5217 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 07:01:41 +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 1035145854 32184 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:54 +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 XAA24859 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:53:34 -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 07:01:42 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 07:01:42 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 21 Feb 1996 17:29:24 -0500 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5217 gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes: > There are lots of problems with trying to determine if the host is up through > some other mechinism like ping. Trusting two different protocols to agree > about whether the host is available is going to be inherently unreliable. That's true, but if one knows that a server doesn't answer pings, then it is down (and vice versa, etc.), then it would be nice to be able to ping the server first. YMMV. So adding a `nntp-ping-before-connect' variable (nil by default) seems like a reasonable idea. > The real answer regarding C-g is to implement asynchronous backend > interfaces. Then Gnus can initiate connections to the nntp backend > and your mail backend and allow you to read your mail while the nntp > backend is still waiting to time out. Lars has already indicated > that this is in the cards for Red Gnus. (Right Lars?) Yup. I've written parts of if already, even. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."