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|    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.              ---        * Origin: *** nntp://fidonews.mine.nu *** Finland *** (2:221/6.0)    |
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