Feb. 7, 2000
2:16 p.m.
"TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:
TW> Ok, well, because the reader attempting the 'group' command,
TW> in cron/gate_news, isn't using authorization, we can just send
TW> the 'mode reader' command when we get the error 500. The
TW> attached patch should work, I think. It fixes the first call
TW> to 'group' instead of the constructor of nntplib.NNTP, so it
TW> should be usable with all nntplib version.
Thanks. I'll apply this patch (with a slightly rewritten comment) to the CVS snapshot.
-Barry