ietf-nntp LISTGROUP

[Russ Allbery]

greg andruk <gja at meowing.net> writes:

> LISTGROUP is cute but ugly little hack.  In its original implementation,
> the command is a wrapper around the GROUP function.  That's why in nntp
> 1.5.x we see the GROUP response line complete with article number
> summary, and why the context changes.  GROUP populates the article array
> by stat'ing the spool directory, and LISTGROUP is simply a parasite that
> prints out those numbers.

> nnrpd does it nearly the same way, but mysteriously it goes to the extra
> trouble of printing out a response line without the details.

Well, since obviously nothing's paying attention to the content of that
line, I may as well go ahead and make nnrpd match the behavior of nntp
1.5.x.  It's easy enough to do, and there's no reason not to include the
additional useful information.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>