[NNTP] Additions to LIST commands

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juhani at kaijanaho.fi
Tue Nov 17 12:33:08 PST 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:57:18AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The junk group is sometimes readable and sometimes not.  There is the
> problem that if you want it to be readable, j currently tells the client
> where the article can be found, whereas if it's not filed at all or in
> some other newsgroup, the client can't find it that way.  But I think the
> idea of reading the junk group via a regular GROUP junk command is a bit
> dubious.  I'm not sure how many people would do that.

Sounds like a SHOULD, or even a MAY.  Certainly, the relation to the junk group
should be documented.

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