ietf-nntp LIST ACTIVE issues

[Urs Janßen]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:20:07AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> A mode of j means that messages from peers are accepted but filed into the
> junk group rather than into a normal newsgroup.  From there, they can be
> sent back out to other peers, but are only readable if readers are allowed
> to read the junk group.  I believe that postings from reader clients are
> also accepted (just filed into junk), but I'm not positive.

If that hasn't changed in INN 2.x that's still true (tested on
INN-1.7.2insync-1.1d+local-patches)

> A mode of = with an associated group means that articles from peers that
> would go into that group are instead filed into the associated group
> instead, and local reader attempts to read or post to the group tend to
> fail in bizarre and interesting ways.  Group aliasing isn't particularly
> well-supported by INN right now.

INN-1.7.2 does send a 441 response to the client which tried to post
to such a group:
| 441 The newsgroup "akk.test.test" has been renamed to "akk.test".