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David Lebel <lebel@socom.com> writes:

> 	Netscape's brain-dead nntp server?  Netscape News is INN 1.4
> on steroids.  In fact, it's only INN with SSL and a HTML-based
> configuration system thrown in (and I'm still asking myself why they
> are still asking 995$US for it ;-)).  
> 
> 	However, LIST ACTIVE GROUP was implemented only in very recent
> (> '94), patch-based 1.4 versions of INN.  Why did Netscape didn't
> implement those patches is an open question.

The problem is not that Netscape's INN version doesn't implement LIST
ACTIVE GROUP -- the problem is that when it receives that command, it
responds by pumping out the entire active file.  If that's not brain
dead, I don't know what is.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen