[pydotorg-www] Problem with gate_news

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This traceback has been sent to postmaster several times in the past couple
days.  Neither Ralf nor I profess to know how this is supposed to work, and
no other postmaster person has chimed in.  Does anyone here know what might
be causing gate_news to fail?  I suspect a problem connecting to a Usenet
news server, but don't know what server that might be and haven't had time
to look into it yet.

If anybody here can provide some clues, please chime in.  I'll try to take a
look this evening.

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    Cron> Traceback (most recent call last):
    Cron>   File "/srv/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 390, in <module>
    Cron>     main()
    Cron>   File "/srv/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 372, in main
    Cron>     clearcache()
    Cron>   File "/srv/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 133, in clearcache
    Cron>     conn.quit()
    Cron>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/nntplib.py", line 599, in quit
    Cron>     resp = self.shortcmd('QUIT')
    Cron>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/nntplib.py", line 259, in shortcmd
    Cron>     return self.getresp()
    Cron>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/nntplib.py", line 214, in getresp
    Cron>     resp = self.getline()
    Cron>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/nntplib.py", line 206, in getline
    Cron>     if not line: raise EOFError
    Cron> EOFError