[NNTP] LISTGROUP wording

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Thu Apr 28 02:32:37 PDT 2005


In <20050427134553.GA70223 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>He pointed out that he wasn't storing the group name anywhere. I assumed
>that made LISTGROUP (no arguments) hard to implement.

I find it hard to see how he manages to implement commands such as ARTICLE
and NEXT if he does not keep some state variable pointing to something
representing the current group. If so, it hardly seems rocket science to
attach the group name to that "something".

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