Re: Red Gnus v0.32 is released

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

David Lebel <lebel@socom.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> 
> : 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.
> 
> 	Are you sure?  When I issue this command to my Netscape News
> server, I get the following trace:
> 
> ---cut---
> [0]$ telnet news.socom.com 119
> Trying 206.108.56.8...
> Connected to athena.socom.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 athena.socom.com InterNetNews NNRP server Netscape 1.1 951101 INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok).
> LIST ACTIVE socom.misc
> 501 [active|newsgroups|distributions|schema]  
> ---cut---
> 
> 	So, as you can see, it didn't pumped the active file, it just
> issued an error code (501).

Escape character is '^]'.
200 <cencored> InterNetNews NNRP server Netscape 1.1 951101 INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok).
list active alt.test
215 Newsgroups in form "group high low flags".
a.bsu.programming 3119 3100 y
a.bsu.religion 9259 9207 y
a.bsu.talk 3771 3756 y
aaa.inu-chan 249 247 y
ab.arnet 5 6 m
ab.general 24408 24294 y
...  

Hey, it's the same release of the server.  Odd.  That's Netscape for
you, I guess.  :-)

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen