[NNTP] LISTGROUP

Peter Robinson pmrobinson at gmx.net
Thu Apr 21 13:40:10 PDT 2005


Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> In <1gvc8dm.1ewzvf41n9nim8M%pmrobinson at gmx.net> pmrobinson at gmx.net (Peter
> Robinson) writes:
> 
> >I think we need to be clearer about what happens to the current article
> >pointer.  My reading of it is that by deferring to GROUP you're saying
> >that it's always the first article in the group that's selected, even if
> >it's not in the (non-empty) range, or if there are no articles in the
> >range.  I think this needs to be stated explicitly.
> 
> But it would make more practical sense for it to be the first article in
> the range.

I agree.  Assuming servers have no trouble implementing it, I would much
prefer to do it that way.  But in that case, what should happen to the
current article pointer if there are articles in the group, but none in
the range?

> BTW, I agree that a range 5-1 should be the empty set. You should be able
> to get the high and low water marks from GROUP, and then say
> 
> LISTGROUPS groupname low-high
> 
> and get the same results as
> 
> LISTGROUPS groupname

IMO, that property is well worth having if at all possible.

Peter



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