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Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> What I would like to do is to nntp-send-command.  If the response code
> is 442 I want to do something special.  Now, (nntp-status-message)
> does not return the code, it only returns the informational message
> after that.  nntp-status-string has the code, but I'm not supposed to
> be using it.

(nnheader-get-report 'nntp)

will get the status message from the `nntp' backend.  (It really just
returns the `nntp-status-string' variable.)  The comment in nntp.el is
outdated, and I've now removed it.

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