Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
On-topic: Even though you can use C-g in this an other cases, it is likely you got yourself into either an infinite loop or some computationally intense operation and/or some operation applied to some huge material (hence the seemingly infinite delay). The first case (the infinite loop) is a bug

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: [Quoted text removed due to X-No-Archive] What does this mean? It means that the article I was (not) quoting from had the X-No-Archive header set, which indicates that the author doesn't want his words archived - quoting them would go against that

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: Because I want to respect the wishes of the people I respond to. Yeah, but are you sure this was set by the OP? He might be using some software that has that by default. Also, I think setting X-No-Archive is kind of silly, if not asocial. This

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: Yeah, but are you sure this was set by the OP? He might be using some software that has that by default. I don't know of any software that does - but of course, anything is possible. X-No-Archive is a quite well-established convention. Yeah - why

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
David Hume david.h...@hushmail.com writes: OK maybe I am silly. I can't remember for certain, but I think I set that header so my articles would not be preserved in google groups for all eternity. GG wont last for all eternity, but even if it it did, what does it matter? -- underground

XNAY (was: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing)

2014-08-31 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Aug 31 2014, David Hume wrote: I think I set that header so my articles would not be preserved in google groups for all eternity. Sure, XNAY prevents *your* articles from being archived. But anybody (except for Adam Sjøgren ;) can quote your text (or parts of your text taken out of

Re: XNAY (was: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing)

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr writes: I think I set that header so my articles would not be preserved in google groups for all eternity. Sure, XNAY prevents *your* articles from being archived. But anybody (except for Adam Sjøgren ;) can quote your text (or parts of your text taken out of

Re: XNAY

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
David Hume david.h...@hushmail.com writes: OK but can anyone be certain that what you quote is what I wrote? No, just look: What a bummer! David didn't write this! But what does it matter? What are you paranoid about? Don't be afraid of your computer! -- underground experts united

Re: XNAY

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
David Hume david.h...@hushmail.com writes: According to my installation of emacs there are some 22000 articles on the server in this group. So my articles are still present in the place I posted them for people to look back to. Unless of course I decided to cancel one. But then I would

Re: XNAY

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
David Hume david.h...@hushmail.com writes: But what does it matter? What are you paranoid about? Don't be afraid of your computer! You can put a spin on anything to suite your purposes. Call it anti-social, call it paranoia, whatever. I call it: stupid. Fact: You message *is* archived,