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From: curtisg@sco.com (Curtis Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Timout too long in messages-s
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Date: 28 Feb 91 21:41:05 GMT
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The timeout for AMS clients detecting a dead messageserver seems rather
excessive -- it ends up being many tens of seconds on my machine. 
(Okay, I'm impatient.)  Can someone point me to the code that controls
this interval?

Thanks,
--Curt