From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson)
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp.
Date: 21 Feb 1996 20:51:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y3ylolwfodm.fsf@ojnk.bahnhof.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: eichin@cygnus.com's message of Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:39:15 EST
eichin@cygnus.com writes:
>I think you're actually seeing two problems:
> 1) linux has a much higher connection timeout than BSD
>traditionally had. This is legitimate, but...
If the machine is down, Gnus shouldn't even try to connect to the
nntp port on it. In my ever so humble opinion.
> 2) emacs doesn't get interrupted by ^g when waiting for a
>network connection. (This also backs up other subprocesses, which can
>be rather annoying...)
Hitting ^g is absolutly not what I want, that still doesn't bring me
my mails...
>If problem 2 gets fixed (19.29 was still broken at least) then you can
>just ^g when it takes to long for you comfort.
19.30 is still broken in this way, how about the .31 pretests? Perhaps
it would be an idea to start using those pretests after all. I have a
problem with this second 'problem' in ZenIRC as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-02-21 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-02-21 18:02 Per Persson
1996-02-21 18:39 ` eichin
1996-02-21 19:51 ` Per Persson [this message]
1996-02-21 19:56 ` eichin
1996-02-21 20:19 ` Per Persson
1996-02-22 1:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-22 7:54 ` Per Persson
1996-02-22 18:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-21 22:29 ` Greg Stark
1996-02-22 6:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-02-22 23:28 ` Wes Hardaker
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