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

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > > 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

> 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 ?

The problem is that the problem code isn't Mailman code ;) nntplib.py is in
the standard python library, it's just included in the 'pythonlib' directory
for older python distributions, that dont have nntplib.py. Apparently the
patch (which isn't real clean, by the way, because a general except: clause
can be very nasty) hasn't been sent to the python-list, or hasn't been
accepted. But the problem does look like it needs fixing, i'll see if i can
send a patch to the python-patches list. In the mean time you can apply the
patch mentioned in that posting, to your own copy of nntplib, as long as you
dont use nntplib in server mode anywhere (Not very likely, that last part)

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