On Mon, Aug 05 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> - connections will eventually time out (the kernel does have a TCP
>>   timeout), and you will be able to reschedule the operation since you
>>   used a queue.
>
> Which reminds me that I regularly have Gnus sessions where I get
> neither an answer nor a timeout after (much) more than 10 minutes.

Well, the default TCP time-out for Linux is 2 hours. Wait a bit more. :-)

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