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

[Lazarus Long]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:19:59PM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
 > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:57:37PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
 > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote:
 > 
 > > > 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)
 > 
 > > That is for the reporter of the problem... But I need to make a fix in the
 > > mailman .deb package for debian potato before potato is released... :)
 > 
 > Ok, well, because the reader attempting the 'group' command, in
 > cron/gate_news, isn't using authorization, we can just send the 'mode
 > reader' command when we get the error 500. The attached patch should work, I
 > think. It fixes the first call to 'group' instead of the constructor of
 > nntplib.NNTP, so it should be usable with all nntplib version.

That patch would not apply here, as I believe I just posted to your list
as well with my previous mail.

I'm not sure if gate_news in the Debian packages differs from the CVS
version or not however.  Gergely?

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