[henrik_w]

So true! One of my pet peeves! Truly pathetic to not include dynamic info like hostname, port and reason.

Who are these people writing code like that - they never had to debug a problem before? Include as much as you can! A stack trace is only part of the story.

[noss]

Definitely, I often catch exceptions and wrap them just to add more information from the try-finally scope. It is so frequently useful to get a full story of what the app was attempting to do.