I'm currently using fetchnews and slrn and frequently have the NNTP connection timeout while composing longer articles, with the result that slrn decides it can post the article and I have to reload it from slrn-failed-posting.txt. While that works, it's a royal PITA...
Looking through the config files, the only promising thing I spotted was query_reconnect in slrn.rc, which is documented with % If non-zero, prompt for reconnection if the NNTP connection drops. If zero, % attempt reconnection without asking user. However, changing it from 1 to 0 didn't improve (or even change) things any. So... How do I either tell fetchnews not to time out NNTP connections or tell slrn to reconnect immediately? (This actually shows up other places as well - if I step away from the keyboard or jump into mail while reading news, when I come back, slrn will claim that the next message/group I try to touch is unavailable the first time, then I have to try to bring it up a second time to get slrn to reconnect to my server - which is particularly annoying when this happens with a group, because slrn unsubscribes it.) -- The Shortest Windows Manual: "Turn off the power switch." Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
