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Since: Jun 30, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:49 am
Post subject: Strange error message in MacSOUP
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Since: Feb 18, 2004
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:43 pm
Post subject: Re: Strange error message in MacSOUP [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Asterix RemoveThis @somewhere.net (Asterix) wrote:
> Yeaterday I switched to news.eu.easynews.com in my MacSOUP setup for
> Easynews. Now, every time I connect a cryptic error message pops up in a
> dialog box:
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> "The server returned an error in response to your NEWSGROUPS command:"
> followed by a text box with only a period (".") in it.
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> The log file says:
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> > NEWGROUPS 071228 101022
> < .
>
> news.easynews.com instead returns
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> > NEWGROUPS 071228 234003
> < 231 New newsgroups follow.
>
> When I klick OK everything works as normal.
>
> The command in question corresponds to "search for news newsgroups" in
> the connection dialog.
>
> I don't know if the problem lies in the way news.eu.easynews.com
> responds to the NEWSGROUP command, or in MacSOUP's interpretation of the
> response. Is the NEWSGROUP command archaic and unsupported?
Looks to me like the server is broken. The response to the NEWGROUPS
request is supposed to be a response code line "231 New newsgroups
follow.", followed by a sequence of lines listing all the new
newsgroups, followed by a line containing only "." to indicate the end
of the list.
It looks to me like that server doesn't send the response code line
before the list of new newsgroups. Or maybe it only does this wrong
when the list is empty. Either way, it's broken.
If you can configure MacSOUP not to check for new newsgroups, or maybe
only check once a week or once a month, that would probably help.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar RemoveThis @alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:34 pm
Post subject: Re: Strange error message in MacSOUP [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Since: Dec 10, 2007
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:51 pm
Post subject: Re: Strange error message in MacSOUP [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In article , Asterix
wrote:
> Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> > In article ,
> > Asterix.RemoveThis@somewhere.net (Asterix) wrote:
> >
> > > Yeaterday I switched to news.eu.easynews.com in my MacSOUP setup for
> > > Easynews. Now, every time I connect a cryptic error message pops up in a
> > > dialog box:
> > >
> > > "The server returned an error in response to your NEWSGROUPS command:"
> > > followed by a text box with only a period (".") in it.
> > >
> > > The log file says:
> > >
> > > > NEWGROUPS 071228 101022
> > > < .
> > >
> > > news.easynews.com instead returns
> > >
> > > > NEWGROUPS 071228 234003
> > > < 231 New newsgroups follow.
> > >
> > > When I klick OK everything works as normal.
> > >
> > > The command in question corresponds to "search for news newsgroups" in
> > > the connection dialog.
> > >
> > > I don't know if the problem lies in the way news.eu.easynews.com
> > > responds to the NEWSGROUP command, or in MacSOUP's interpretation of the
> > > response. Is the NEWSGROUP command archaic and unsupported?
> >
> > Looks to me like the server is broken. The response to the NEWGROUPS
> > request is supposed to be a response code line "231 New newsgroups
> > follow.", followed by a sequence of lines listing all the new
> > newsgroups, followed by a line containing only "." to indicate the end
> > of the list.
> >
> > It looks to me like that server doesn't send the response code line
> > before the list of new newsgroups. Or maybe it only does this wrong
> > when the list is empty. Either way, it's broken.
>
> Apparently there was a thread on this subject in easynws support back in
> November.
>
> > If you can configure MacSOUP not to check for new newsgroups, or maybe
> > only check once a week or once a month, that would probably help.
>
> It's not a problem, more of an annoyance. Anyway, the option is set
> directly in the "Connect to server" dialog box. It'll be interesting to
> reconfigure Thoth the same way...
Glad to hear that are others still using the pharaoh of all newsreaders.
Thoth is the best and continues to work like a charm under 10.4.11.
Cheers!
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:21 am
Post subject: Re: Strange error message in MacSOUP [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:07 am
Post subject: Re: Strange error message in MacSOUP [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In article , Asterix
wrote:
> Curmudgeon wrote:
>
> > >
> > > It's not a problem, more of an annoyance. Anyway, the option is set
> > > directly in the "Connect to server" dialog box. It'll be interesting to
> > > reconfigure Thoth the same way...
> >
> > Glad to hear that are others still using the pharaoh of all newsreaders.
>
> Basically I use MacSOUP for text groups, and Thoth for binaries,
> whith some overlap. Nothing beats MacSOUP when it comes to following
> threads. Plus, it's UB.
>
> > Thoth is the best and continues to work like a charm under 10.4.11.
>
> What about 10.5.1 - and, not the least, Intel?
> I have a hunch that sorting of large binary groups (try
> alt.binaries.test) under Rosetta can be a CPU hog.
>
> It's bad enough on an iMac G5.
> Does MT-NW or Unison handle this more efficiently?
I can't speak to any of your questions, Asterix, since I've been happy
enough with Thoth's performance as both a text and binary newsreader
since I first installed it (before MacSOUP ever existed, I think) that
I've never even tried SOUP. Thoth just works! And as far as Leopard
goes, I'm running a machine that would barf on it (a 466 MHz G4), so I
can't answer that either.
Cheers!
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