Re: posting to gmane hangs indefinitely until abort & repost

On 2013-04-11, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have some trouble posting to news.gmane.org using slrn. The actualy
> posting often hangs and I have to abort and choose Repost at the prompt.
> It is then processed quickly, without hanging.
>
> I get the feeling that there is some network connection that has timed
> out (while I was writing the article?), and which isn't properly renewed
> until the repost (retry) is done. That's a wild guess.
>
> I have never used slrn before, or with another news server. Version is
> 1.0.1.

FWIW, I've been using slrn to post to gmane for many, many years and
I've never had any problems -- as you can see by this post.  :)

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