From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus makes emacs lose response Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:56:47 +0100 Message-ID: <44EEBB4F.1060304@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156496270 9402 80.91.229.2 (25 Aug 2006 08:57:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 25 10:57:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGXVb-0003mW-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:57:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGXVa-0002AF-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGXVE-0002A8-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGXVC-00029w-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGXVC-00029t-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGXdP-0002Yy-BQ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.111.61] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA8F3BG; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:48:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.61 ([192.168.111.61] helo=[192.168.111.61]) by ASSP-nospam; 25 Aug 2006 09:48:18 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58855 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > The proposal is simply that Gnus should detect a stale connection to > an NNTP server -- if the server doesn't respond in a timely manner, it > should drop the connection and open a new one. > > It depends on the precise definition of "stale". If it would include > a connection made via WiFi when the card has been pulled out, then it > would create a bug. > I don't see how creating a new connection, which will either fail or go via another route in the above case, could be considered a bug.