ietf-nntp LIST NEWSGROUPS
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Tue Jul 8 06:25:13 PDT 2003
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Ken Murchison said:
>
>>The last sentence in the first paragraph seems to hint that an empty
>>response means that there are no groups available on the server.
>
>
> I've deleted that sentence.
I think the sentence is useful, provided that the second phrase is
corrected (stealing text from p 4):
"Note that an empty list is a possible valid response, and indicates
that there are no groups in the file."
>>I would like to think that an empty response means that there are no
>>descriptions for the requested newsgroups.
>
>
> That's what the fourth paragraph says.
It does, but only in the context of using the optional wildmat.
Minor nit: Do we want to refer to a "mapping" or "database" of newsgroup
descriptions instead of a newsgroups "file"? It seems that current
implementation is creeping into the text. Cyrus for instance has a
database of mailbox meta-data, one of which is a comment and/or
description. I won't argue for this change strenuously.
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