[ mailman-Bugs-775100 ] gate_news: Handling missing groups

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Bugs item #775100, was opened at 2003-07-21 16:17
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>Category: nntp/news
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nis Jørgensen (nizz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: gate_news: Handling missing groups

Initial Comment:
At the moment, if a non-existing newsgroup is chosen
for mirroring, we break out of the loop:

    for listname in Utils.list_names():
[...]
        try:
            conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist)
        except (socket.error, nntplib.NNTPError):
            break
[...]

I believe that, at least for some NNTPErrors, we should
do a "continue" instead.

My naive patch would be this: 

        try:
            conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist)
        except nntplib.NNTPError:
            continue 
        except socket.error:
            break

But if people have good reason to break on
othernNTPErrors, we might want to do a more finegrained
check.


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