There seems to be a bug in OS2008 - or some of the applications bundled with it, or Modest - which (obviously) I haven't nailed down yet; so it's not reported.

The root cause is that the "Select connection" dialogue doesn't time out, so once it pops up it sets there constantly scanning for wireless APs.

Now, I think it's either the RSS applet or Modest which when set to update themselves when connected to wifi do something silly, or misuse the API, and trigger that dialogue to appear. Bingo: one flat battery.

Going into and out-of offline mode seems to cure it, but is a real pain: I don't have wifi at the office anymore, but don't want to remember to switch it back to normal mode when I get home so that the RSS feeds are up-to-date in the morning.

Any help in narrowing down this bug so that a specific bug can be logged in Bugzilla would be welcome.