On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:34:37 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.ber...@gmx.net> writes: > >> On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:55:36 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> >> wrote: [...] >>> The nntp-connection-timeout variable has been present and nil since >>> 1999. I put my original buggy fix in at the end of October 2021, so that >>> seems suspicious, but that should only have had an effect if you had set >>> nntp-connection-timeout to something other than the default of nil. >> >> I've never touched nntp-connection-timeout, I only became aware of it >> when you mentioned it in this thread. Also, October 2021 is too early: >> the early to mid December date stands out to me because in early >> December of that year there was a change in my internet service, and I >> started experiencing the Gnus problem soon thereafter. At first I >> thought it might be due to my change in internet service, but the >> problem really was and remains only with fetching news with Gnus (and >> not with fetching email with Gnus, which I do from different mail >> servers). I also only use news.gmane.io for fetching news, so that's >> why I thought maybe something changed there. > > It's entirely possible! The buggy fix was reverted in early May, so if > you stopped seeing the bad behavior then, that would be pretty conclusive. Unfortunately, I can conclusively state that I continue to get the hangs to this day (and the sightings reported by Prashant Tak and Eric Fraga were also just within the last week or so). Steve Berman
