On Day 51 of The Aftermath 3168, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Martin Rohde <martin.rohde@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> If I get it right, you can almost take the code for that from
>> nntp-send-command* and put it into nntp-open-connection. I will send
>> a patch, if it works.
>
> That would be great!  (I didn't see code for finding out if there is
> an echoed command.  Maybe I was just blind.)

Well, nntp-send-command looks, if there's an echo, and then deletes
it. I don't understand most of the code in nntp-open-connection, so
I don't know if anything of this patch makes sense. And I don't know
how to test it, because i don't know how to force such a local echo.

What this code does, is to send a "MODE READER" as a No-Op command,
when the connection is established (I think ;), and then it looks,
just like in nntp-send-command, if the command is echoed in the
server-buffer. If so, it deletes it and sets nntp-delete-echo to t
for future reference (I hope).