inn-2.3.2 and GROUP

[Russ Allbery]

Winfried Joachim Szukalski <szukw000 at students.uni-mainz.de> writes:

> When I call 'news://localhost/*',  I see a list of four news
> groups. When I click on 'comp.os.linux.announce', I get the
> contents of this list.

> 1. When I go back to the previous page to get the list of 
>    groups, INN tells me that 'GROUP' is not implemented.

> 2. When I go back to the previous page to get the list of
>    groups, INN shows me that list.

> The two steps are not done one after the other but by two
> different sessions.

> The difference between 1. and 2. is: step 1 is done via the
> menubar, step 2 is done via a popup menu. Both steps call
> the same command sequence. The result is different. 

> Why?

I'm not entirely sure, since I don't know how your newsreader works, but
an error saying that GROUP is not implemented indicates that you're
talking to innd rather than nnrpd.  This usually means that the news
reader has not sent the MODE READER command that's required after opening
a new connection if the host from which you're connecting is allowed to
either feed news or read news.

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