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* Re: Dealing with unresponsive servers
       [not found] <beroat$q80$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
@ 2003-07-13 15:48 ` Andrew Luke NESBIT
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From: Andrew Luke NESBIT @ 2003-07-13 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)


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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