nntplib timeout bug?

[v2ng at my-deja.com]

I saw a previous  message thread about the urllib library and a problem
with timeouts (or actually the lack thereof).

I have a similar problem with nntplib.  Sometimes I try fetching an
article and the nntp server just stalls for whatever reason.

Since I can't seem to kill threads, how should I go about detecting a
timeout condition?  Python doesn't seem to ever timeout of trying to get
the article from the news server.

Vic


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