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From: Urs =?UTF-8?Q?Jan=C3=9Fen?= <urs@buil.tin.org>
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Subject: Re: Archiving Usenet 2003-2025
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:56:19 -0000 (UTC)
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In Billy G. (go-while) <no-reply@no.spam> wrote:
> The Server is written by me and lacks some commands.

LIST OVERVIEW.FMT ist buggy (doubled status/end response):

| > CAPABILITIES
[...]
| < LIST ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES COUNTS DISTRIB.PATS DISTRIBUTIONS HEADERS MODERATORS MOTD NEWSGROUPS OVERVIEW.FMT SUBSCRIPTIONS

| > LIST OVERVIEW.FMT
| < 215 Order of fields in overview database.
! < 215 Order of fields in overview database.
| < Subject:
| < From:
| < Date:
| < Message-ID:
| < References:
| < Bytes:
| < Lines:
| < Xref:full
| < .
! < .

LIST MOTD never returns
| > LIST MOTD
Connection closed by foreign host.

LIST COUNTS never returns
| > LIST COUNTS
Connection closed by foreign host.

If they are not implemented, don't advertize them in CAPABILITIES.
There might be more worth fixing...