From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5199 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp. Date: 21 Feb 1996 21:19:07 +0100 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Sender: pp@ojnk.bahnhof.se Message-ID: References: <9602211956.AA09060@tito.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145839 32107 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no 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 NAA16667 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:09:36 -0800 Original-Received: from ojnk.bahnhof.se (ojnk.bahnhof.se [193.44.91.7]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: (from pp@localhost) by ojnk.bahnhof.se (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA01562; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 21:19:07 +0100 Original-To: eichin@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: eichin@cygnus.com's message of Wed, 21 Feb 96 14:56:18 EST Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5199 eichin@cygnus.com writes: >Just note that ping isn't reliable (for example, if I can get to the >nntp server though a firewall without being able to ping the host, it >should still let me...) though that just means it should be >optional... what could another variable hurt :-) 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. gnus-ping-secondary-methods Ping machines used by secondary methods. (Possibly a list of methods). gnus-ping-fail-hook What to do if the ping fails gnus-ping-suceed-hook What to do if the ping suceeds. gnus-ping-pre-hook What to do before pinging. gnus-ping-post-hook What to do after pinging. gnus-ping-pong Ping again when 'host is alive' just to make sure the host is alive. If numeric, ping host that many times. gnus-ping-myself Is I'm not alive, don't even start Gnus. gnus-ping-per-persson Send a mail to me, telling me my ideas are moronic. If numeric, mail me that many times. >Strictly speaking, the ^g should interrupt the connect, allowing it to >fail, and gnus could then "catch" that failure and continue on to >non-news stuff... or at least I think that makes sense. gnus-dont-use-ping-but-let-me-use-^g, yes please! :-) -- anum meum aperies, asperge me spermate tuo et inquinabor url; http://pfawww.pp.se/~pp/ email; phone#'s; work/home/fax: +46 (0)18 100899/247473/103737