Possible bug in pullnews (inn 2.3)

[jmv16 at cornell.edu]

I'm experiencing what looks like a bug in pullnews (version:
# Project:      INN
# File:         pullnews.pl
# RCSId:        $Id: pullnews.in,v 1.2.2.1 2000/04/13 18:14:26 rra Exp $
# Time-stamp:   <Friday, 7 April 2000 15:17:12 by brister at nominum.com>
)

It seems to die after attempting to suck a group with no articles (not no 
new articles, but none at all).  Consider the following transcript, 
showing config file, conversation with server, and attempt to run 
pullnews.  Explicitly (with -g) listing has no effect, as soon as an 
empty group is encountered it stops.  Moderated/unmoderated status of 
group also has no effect.  


(news at marduk:pts/31) ~ > head pullnews.conf
# Format: (date is epoch seconds)
# hostname [username passwd]
#       group date high
newsstand.cit.cornell.edu
        cornell.admin.web 969390775 802
        cornell.announce.bear-access 0 0
        cornell.announce.cit 0 0
        cornell.announce.networks 0 0
        cornell.announce.news 0 0
        cornell.announce.newusers 0 0

(news at marduk:pts/31) ~ > telnet newsstand.cit.cornell.edu nntp
Trying 132.236.56.8...
Connected to newsstand.cit.cornell.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 newsstand.cit.cornell.edu InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.2 
13-Dec-1999 ready (posting ok).
mode reader
200 newsstand.cit.cornell.edu InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.2 
13-Dec-1999 ready (posting ok).
group cornell.admin.web
211 4 799 802 cornell.admin.web
group cornell.announce.bear-access
211 0 0 0 cornell.announce.bear-access
quit
205 .
Connection closed by foreign host.

(news at marduk:pts/31) ~ > bin/pullnews -c pullnews.conf
Starting: Tue Sep 19 15:18:11 2000

Connecting to downstream host: localhost port: 119 ...done.

Legend: ``.'' is an article the downstream server refused
        ``*'' is an article the downstream server rejected
        ``+'' is an article the downstream server accepted
        ``x'' is an article the upstream server couldn't give out.

connecting to upstream server newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...done.

cornell.admin.web:
        last checked: Tue Sep 19 15:12:55 2000
        4 articles available. First 799 Last 802
        Our current highest: 802 (nothing to get)

cornell.announce.bear-access:
        last checked: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
        0 articles available. First 0 Last 0
        Our current highest: 0
Saving config

0 articles were offered to server on localhost

Done Tue Sep 19 15:18:11 2000



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