result of 'list active'

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:
> Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou at nec.co.jp> writes:

>> I noticed 'list active' just includes one character for flag in each
>> line.  This means no information can be got for any aliased newsgroup.
>> This is because CMDlist() calls OV3groupstats() to get newsgroup
>> information.  I think this may be 977 business, but I'd like to know if
>> we should fix.  As for 2.2 nnrpd returns whole line in active.

> I lost track if this ever changed.  Are we still returning only one
> character?  We really want to return the full aliased newsgroup; some
> clients may use that information.

Looking at the code, it appears that we are, and that it's hard to fix.
Hm.  I guess we'll go with this for 2.3, since aliased groups work oddly
in a lot of respects anyway, and take a look at fixing it for 2.4.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>