Slow article fetch with GNUS with SSL imap and news

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:

 > I find that the openssl wrapper that is used to do the SSL connection
 > often doesn't know that the connection has been dropped.
 > 
 > As a consequence, I have this:
 > 
 > (defun kill-openssl ()
 >   (call-process "killall" nil nil nil "openssl"))
 > 
 > (add-hook 'gnus-get-new-news-hook 'kill-openssl)

Mike, is this resolution satisfactory?  Or should we add code to
XEmacs or a package?  Or should we just document it?