[tin-users] Only one post per group

[Anton Shepelev]

Urs Janssen to Anton Shepelev:

> > When  used  with  the JamNNTPd server, a freshly
> > started tin always displays at most one  message
> > per  group.  The 'y' command inside a group does
> > not help and only the 'z'  command  reveals  all
> > the   messages.   The  situation  repeats  after
> > restart.
> >
> > Other newsreaders -- Sylpheed, slrn, Xnews -- do
> > not exhibit this problem.
>
> looking  at the NNTP dialog (tin -D 1) I see stuff
> like[1]:
>
> >>> [22:15:07.361864] LIST
> <<< [22:15:07.410049] 215 List of newsgroups follows
> <<< [22:15:07.458690] test 1 20 n
> [...]
> <<< [22:15:07.507522] bar 2 2 n
>
> "newsgroup lowmark highmark flag"
> but according to RFC 3977 7.6.1./7.6.3.
> (and its ancestors RFC 977) the response shall be
> "newsgroup highmark lowmark flag"
> (highmark lowmark swapped).
>
> -> JamNNTPd doesn't do NNTP. Not tins fault.

So you actually tested it with JamNNTPd?   Thanks  a
lot.  I will inform them about it.

> Other    readers    either    don't    use    LIST
> [ACTIVE|COUNTS] to get the article  numbers  (just
> GROUP/LISTGROUP)  or  detect swapped fields in the
> LIST response (I don't think so).
>
> If you have a well prepared  newsrc  at  hand  for
> that  broken  server "tin -n" may do the trick for
> you (but -n will never look for new groups, so you
> need a newsrc with all the groups you like to read
> already present).

Thank you.  I don't often need news groups, so  this
workaround will do.

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