Would you PLEASE stop the miner from reconnecting endlessly?
Or just implement "--retries" argument for how many times you would like it to retry, like I suggested before.
The quickest solution is to not have the miner reconnect at all and just exit so we could do something, where now the miner just stops ALL mining and waits forever for the pool to be up again, and hopefully it does.
Well this is better in 0.2 versions ... they handle this much more graceful! But stratum connection will get a rework next versions. Would like to do fall-back pool and ssl support

By the way (see two posts above): With that versions it now should work on the pools that are still online!