[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Gergely Madarasz]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:13:56PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas what might cause this ?
> 
> > nntplib.error_perm: 500 "GROUP" not implemented; try "help".
> 
> You're connecting to a newsserver that does not have or perhaps does not
> allow the 'GROUP' command. I personally wasn't aware that there were such
> newsservers... But perhaps you are connected to a newsfeeder box, instead of
> a newsreader box ? Some ISPs split their newsservers in feeders, who only
> have enough of a newsserver to share news with other newsservers, serve as a
> gateway of sorts, and actual readers, which get their feed off the feeders,
> and who _do_ allow clients to connect, and offer most, if not all, NNTP
> commands.
> 
> If you're fairly sure you are connected to the right newsserver, try
> connecting to that newsserver, from the machine running mailman, on the news
> port (119) and try the GROUP command yourself. Also see if you can check the
> newsservers' logfile, to see if it mentions anything else. If all else
> fails, you need to find a different newsserver, or shut off the news
> gateway.

Hmm... I found what might cause this... this if from the mailman list
archives:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-October/002371.html

so does this mean that there was no workaround made for this in mailman
1.1 ? Is there a patch somewhere perhaps ?

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