From: alnesbit@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Luke NESBIT)
Subject: Re: Dealing with unresponsive servers
Date: 13 Jul 2003 15:48:59 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <berv1b$4cr$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <beroat$q80$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
alnesbit@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Luke NESBIT) writes:
>My news server is really flakey. This causes problems when starting
>Gnus: that is, if the news server is being unresponsive, then Gnus
>just hangs indefinitely and won't start at all.
I just upgraded to Gnus 5.10.2 and it solves my problem. Pressing C-g
when Gnus is trying to contact an unresponsive server at startup
presents a prompt asking whether to go offline for that server.
Andrew.
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