Re: [NNTP] Interoperability with 502 answer to GROUP command

Hi Clive,

> If you want to hide the presence of group.auth2 entirely from people wh=
o
> don't have access to it, you could use a 411. But then why did you retu=
rn
> 480 to group.auth1?
>
> You need to decide one of:
> (1) People can know about groups they don't have access to. They appear
> in LIST ACTIVE. You return 480 to any attempt to get at the group with
> authority.
> (2) People can't know about groups they don't have access to. They don'=
t
> appear in LIST ACTIVE and you return 411 to attempts to get them. The u=
ser
> has to know that she needs to authenticate and they will magically appe=
ar.
> (3) Any mix of the above.

Understood, and agreed.  Many thanks for your answer.
It is up to the implementation to decide how it wants to handle the case.

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Julien =C9LIE

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