On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:50, Harmeet wrote:
> From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Okay. Getting news by ID works now ;)
>
> getting there. :-)
;)
> > However on both yours and Rhys's servers respond with "501 Syntax Error"
>
> when
>
> > I do try "New Groups" option in KNode. Get to it via
>
> There was a problem with NEWGROUPS command. I think it has been fixed.
> Also, added a system property to help debug the protocol.
> With the latest cvs code, if System property
> apache.nntpserver.debug==true
> then a lot of output is written into the nntp specific log file.
>
> I have updated news.kodemuse.com with cvs code and
> apache.nntpserver.debug==true. Rhys you may want to do get the fixes in
> NNTPHandler.java from CVS and if you want set apache.nntpserver.debug==true
> in the run script
>
> Haven't tried the 'New Groups' option in KNode yet. (Access problem.) Hope
> to that soon.
> 'New Groups' command seems to work with python nntplib, so I have some
> confidence.
Now I get error:
230 List of new news groups follows
> > Also can James specify descriptions for newsgroups ?
>
> James cannot specify the description. Group description cannot be read from
> the config.xml or stored in repository.
> But the protocol server, does return the description. The description
> returned for a group is the same as name of a group.
> It is probably a little bit of work to add description, but not too much.
> Do you think it would be a good thing to do ?
In the long run - yep ;) It makes it easier to determine whether you want to
subscribe to group or not.
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Cheers,
Pete
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