[leafnode-list] Re: news.mozilla.org: reading new newsgroups failed, reason "501 no such list available"

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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:23:45 +0100 "Matthias Andree" wrote:

> GigaNews's servers do not support the standard command "NEWGROUPS"...
> (and it's GigaNews who host these newsgroups).

I realize this thread is a couple of weeks old, and maybe something has
changed on their end, but I can't see any problem with their
response to a proper NEWGROUPS command.  Here's a log from today with a
couple of examples.

$ telnet news.mozilla.org 119
Trying 216.196.97.169...
Connected to news.mozilla.giganews.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 news.mozilla.org
NEWGROUPS 20080101 000000
231 new newsgroups follow
mozilla.dev.static-analysis 206 2 y
mozilla.labs.concept-series 0 0 y
mozilla.labs.ubiquity 0 0 y
mozilla.dev.amo 98 2 y
mozilla.labs.bespin 3 3 y
mozilla.labs 13 2 y
mozilla.support.screenshots 59 2 m
mozilla.community.standards 8 2 y
mozilla.labs.prism 7 2 y
mozilla.dev.tree-management 488 2 y
mozilla.labs.snowl 0 0 y
mozilla.education 10 3 y
mozilla.labs.weave 7 2 y
mozilla.labs.personas 7 2 y
mozilla.labs.testpilot 7 2 y
mozilla.dev.security.policy 326 2 y
mozilla.community.india 8 2 y
.
NEWGROUPS 20090301 121212
231 new newsgroups follow
mozilla.labs.concept-series 0 0 y
mozilla.labs.ubiquity 0 0 y
mozilla.labs.bespin 3 3 y
mozilla.labs 13 2 y
mozilla.community.standards 8 2 y
mozilla.labs.prism 7 2 y
mozilla.labs.snowl 0 0 y
mozilla.labs.weave 7 2 y
mozilla.labs.personas 7 2 y
mozilla.labs.testpilot 7 2 y
mozilla.community.india 8 2 y
.
quit
205 goodbye

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