[NNTP] LISTGROUP

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Apr 26 11:44:21 PDT 2005


"Andrew - Supernews" <andrew at supernews.net> writes:

> Did someone sneak in a change to the LISTGROUP result text while I
> wasn't looking? LISTGROUP traditionally does _NOT_ return the same
> output as GROUP does; that may be a wart, but it's worth noting that
> there is _no other place_ in the protocol that requires the server
> to remember the name of the current group.

Yeah, this was changed quite a while back and is what INN currently does.
At least year or two, I think, and there was a fair bit of discussion
about it at the time.  I don't recall any concerns being raised at the
time; do you feel that this is going to cause problems?

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



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