Re: gnus stops when RSS group is not available

[Dave]

Christian Schmitt <Christian.Schmitt@dresdner-bank.com> writes:
> I'm using Gnus 5.10.6 with XEmacs 21.4.15 on WinNT 4.0.
> I have about six or seven RSS groups I'm subscribed to. Now, when I
> fire up Gnus and one of the RSS groups is not available at the moment
> (server down, URL changed, etc.) Gnus just hangs after displaying an
> error message in the minibuffer.

I had the same problem with Gnus hanging because of unavailable nnrss
groups and the very large timeout when Gnus tries to get the RSS feed
via http. The timeout depends on the program mm-url uses for fetching
URLs. For using "wget" with a timeout of 5 seconds use

(setq mm-url-use-external t)
(setq mm-url-program "wget")
(setq mm-url-arguments '("-q" "-t" "1" "-T" "5" "-O" "-"))

HTH,
Dave