On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:40:36PM -0600, Travis wrote: > 2) In some cases, it will bomb out upon receiving certain greetings > that it doesn't expect. As I understand it, it actually terminates > the connection, not allowing for catching an exception or anything. > I have not verified this myself.
I just verified this; if the server responds to authentication with the string "200 Welcome feeder", then nntplib bombs out with a: nntplib.NNTPPermanentError IMHO, it shouldn't be sensitive to anything but the numeric code, and 200 indicates success. -- Crypto ergo sum. http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ Do unto other faiths as you would have them do unto yours. If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get blacklisted. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
