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   Message 1,407 of 2,630   
   Anton Shepelev to Anton Shepelev   
   Response to the LIST command   
   10 Jul 16 20:19:54   
   
   I wrote:   
      
   AS> Could  anybody  confirm  that JamNNTPd correctly handles   
   AS> the LIST command?  According  to  RFC977  the  newsgroup   
   AS> should be reported as   
   AS>                    group last first p   
   AS>   
   AS> while  according  to RFC 3977, each line of the response   
   AS> to "LIST ACTIVE" should consist   
   AS>   
   AS> ,----[ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977#section-7.6.1 ]   
   AS> | of four fields separated from each  other  by  one  or   
   AS> | more spaces:   
   AS> |   
   AS> |    o The name of the newsgroup.   
   AS> |    o The reported high water mark for the group.   
   AS> |    o The reported low water mark for the group.   
   AS> |    o The current status of the group on this server.   
   AS> |   
   AS> | The reported high and low water marks are as described   
   AS> | in the GROUP command (see  Section  6.1.1),  but  note   
   AS> | that  they  are  in  the opposite order to the 211 re-   
   AS> | sponse to that command.   
   AS> `------------------------   
   AS>   
   AS> The reponse of JanNNPD seems to have the watermarks reversed:   
   AS>   
   AS>   >>> [22:15:07.361864] LIST   
   AS>   <<< [22:15:07.410049] 215 List of newsgroups follows   
   AS>   <<< [22:15:07.458690] test 1 20 n   
   AS>   [...]   
   AS>   <<< [22:15:07.507522] bar 2 2 n   
      
   The mainainer of the tin newsreader Urs Janssen,  who  found   
   the root of the problem when I told him about it, has kindly   
   filed a ticket:   
      
     https://sourceforge.net/p/ftnapps/jamnntpd/tickets/4/   
      
   with exactly the same diff patch as suggested by Mark.   
      
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