From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5197 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 20:51:49 +0100 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Sender: pp@ojnk.bahnhof.se Message-ID: References: <9602211839.AA00178@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 1035145837 32105 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:37 +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 MAA16317 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:43:38 -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 20:49:13 +0100 Original-Received: (from pp@localhost) by ojnk.bahnhof.se (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01375; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:51:52 +0100 Original-To: eichin@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: eichin@cygnus.com's message of Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:39:15 EST Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5197 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5197 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. -- 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