ietf-nntp Minor corrections to 11.4
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Fri Sep 1 01:35:46 PDT 2000
Found one more problem with this section; the example:
[C] NEWGROUPS 19990624 000000 UTC
[S] 230 list of new newsgroups follows
[S] alt.rfc-writers.recovery
[S] tx.natives.recovery
[S] .
is incorrect. The text correctly documents existing practice, saying:
A list of newsgroups created since <date and time> MUST be
listed in the same format as the LIST command.
The example should look like:
[C] NEWGROUPS 19990624 000000 UTC
[S] 230 list of new newsgroups follows
[S] alt.rfc-writers.recovery 4 1 y
[S] tx.natives.recovery 89 59 y
[S] .
Looks like both the LIST description and its examples are also wrong; it
says in section 9.4.1:
The response to the LIST keyword with no parameters returns a
list of valid news groups and associated information. Each
news group is sent as a line of text in the following format:
group first last status
where <group> is the name of the news group, <last> is the
number of the last known article currently in that news group,
<first> is the number of the first article currently in the
news group, and <status> indicates the current status of the
group on this server.
This should be:
group last first status
and the examples changed appropriately. I have no clue why it was decided
to have last before first in the active file format, but so far as I know
it's always been that way; see RFC 977.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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