On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:50:05 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
wrote:
> Stephen Berman writes:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:02:34 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen Berman writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> This:
>>
>> (defun srb-gnus-group-get-new-news (&optional arg one-level)
>>(interactive "P")
Eric writes:
> When you think about it, updating a global variable is all the Gnus code
> is doing! But better to rely on someone else's ugly hack, I suppose...
Haha, yes, and if you take a couple of more steps back, all computing
is manipulation of global memory ;-)
But I think not having one h
Adam Sjøgren writes:
> Eric writes:
>
>> When you think about it, updating a global variable is all the Gnus code
>> is doing! But better to rely on someone else's ugly hack, I suppose...
>
> Haha, yes, and if you take a couple of more steps back, all computing
> is manipulation of global memory
>
> Bob> Interestingly (to me at least!) is that I rarely encounter a
> Bob> hang while fetching, although at times it can be terribly
> Bob> slow--- I fetch via IMAP and just from gmail, and I blame gmail
> Bob> for this for the most part.
>
> gmail IMAP can be excruciatingly slo
On 07/05/23 10:04 AM, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:50:05 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen Berman writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:02:34 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
>>> wrote:
>>>
Stephen Berman writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> This:
>>>
>>> (defun srb-gnus-group-
On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:55:36 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
wrote:
> On 07/05/23 10:04 AM, Stephen Berman wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:50:05 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
>> wrote:
[...]
>>> Using `nntp-connection-timeout' is the proper fix for this problem, it's
>>> just got a bit of unfortunate behavior
Stephen Berman writes:
> On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:55:36 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
> wrote:
>
>> On 07/05/23 10:04 AM, Stephen Berman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:50:05 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
>>> wrote:
> [...]
Using `nntp-connection-timeout' is the proper fix for this problem, it's
ju
On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:34:37 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
wrote:
> Stephen Berman writes:
>
>> On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:55:36 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen
>> 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 202