Subj : JamNNTPd that WORKS
To   : mark lewis
From : Rick Christian
Date : Fri Nov 04 2016 22:33:14


   Hello mark!

04 Nov 16 11:42, you wrote to me:

 ml> BTW: i responded to your issue #6 at the ftnapps repo... i read over
 ml> the RFC and i don't think that your simple fix will work... mainly
 ml> because JAMNNTPd is not a mode switching NNTP server...

Few NNTP servers are, other than INN, BUT they need to respond to the command as if they were.

They just need to fake out the readers which insist on this before doing anything.

 ml> your news
 ml> clients would know this if they used the CAPABILITIES request as noted


Ummm.. Just FYI .... JamNNTPD does NOT RESPOND to this!

~$ telnet news.wpusa.dynip.com 119
Trying 40.136.244.87...
Connected to news.wpusa.dynip.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Welcome to JamNNTPd/OS2 1.21.b9/wpusa (posting may or may not be allowed, try your luck)
CAPABILITIES
500 Unknown command
CAPABILITIES
500 Unknown command

Based on https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977

 ml> in the RFC... anyway, just thought i'd let you know that i did
 ml> consider the request and was going to add it to my code base for

Per the RFC and several sources... for reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977

An NNTP server when it gets MODE READER, should respond:

200 some text

So

200 Welcome to JamNNTPd/OS2 1.21.b9/wpusa (posting may or may not be allowed, try your luck)

Seems to be a good way to "*fake*" out PAN and KNode which issue this command before doing anything else like LIST to get a list of the groups.


 ml> testing but not without further study of the RFC and consulting with
 ml> others in this echo that have a better understanding than i...

*I* will know soon enough...

Rick


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