STABLE-2_3 ... 'mode reader' drops connection?

[The Hermit Hacker]

Does this look right to ppl?

> telnet news.acadiau.ca nntp
Trying 131.162.200.55...
Connected to poseidon.acadiau.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 acadiau.ca InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.0 (20000627 CVS prerelease) ready (posting ok).
mode reader
Connection closed by foreign host.

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org