bug#53070: 27.2; Message "Server closed connection" not verbose enough

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> […]
>
>>> (Side note: If such a hiccup happens, it sometimes appears
>>> that the *Group* buffer is not updated with regard to number
>>> of unread messages per group, etc. for /other/ servers that
>>> were successfully contacted.  I don't know if Gnus is more
>>> aggressive than it needs to be here; if it encounters an er-
>>> ror when trying to contact a POP3 server, it will just ask
>>> nicely and continue on.)
>
>> How recent is your Emacs? In 032969e8 (end of October) I put in a patch
>> which switched NNTP failures from raising an error -- which interrupted
>> the whole update process -- to simply reporting the failure. What you
>> describe sounds like the behavior I'd observed before making that
>> change.
>
> 27.2; I agree with your reasoning and look forward to your
> patch trickling down to Fedora :-).

Ouch! Well, it will get to you eventually.