On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, alexlehm wrote:
is there a dedicated test group?
The one that is peered across Tildeverse (i.e. in tilde.* namespace)?
Not really.
I think the purpose for test group[s] is for testing newreader's
posting ability (as well as experimenting weird formatting
and suchlike) before actually posting real messages to groups
which are peered-- to avoid polluting actual newsgroups
with a lot of test messages. [1]
In practice, posting of test messages to actual peered newsgroups
are allowed [2]; but you are advised to keep it at the minimum
in a normal situation at least. (Yours is understandable
as Cosmic.voyage doesn't provide a test newsgroup)
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, yeti wrote:
Is local.test visible on all nntp nodes?
local.* are specific to each NNTP server, each of them are not the same.
For example: local.test in Tilde.club is not the same as local.test
in Tilde.team, the test message ~alexlehm posted in local.test
through Tilde.club [3] is only visible to ones who use Tilde.club's
NNTP server (news.tilde.club a.k.a. tilde.club a.k.a. news.tildeverse.org);
and could not be viewed by ones who use Tilde.team's NNTP server
despite them having a same-name group.
But for Cosmic.voyage specifically, however...
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, alexlehm wrote:
The groups do not exist e.g. on cosmic
Okay, thanks for bringing this up. I should get in touch with ~tomasino
later about Cosmic.voyage's phony listing of `local.general`
and `local.test` in `LIST NEWGROUPS` NNTP command output.
(As expected, these groups returned "411 No such group" error
on actual issue of "GROUP" NNTP command)
Cheers,
~xwindows
(Tilde.club's unofficial Netnews wrangler)
P.S. This post is sent from inside Tilde.club.
[1] You might have seen some humorous reply I have made
in response to someone posting a test message outside of
a dedicated test group when the server in question does have one,
like...
"Re: test; failed" [2022-12-29T14:53:13Z]
<news:
86de2aab-747-dc97-639c-e5bd19e8e8c@tilde.club>
<nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.club/124>
[2] This usually happen when a new host join the peering,
or when a new newsgroup is about to be established;
for the purpose of verifying the peering.
[3] "Test post" [2023-01-25T19:22:58Z]
(Viewable only via Tilde.club's Netnews server)
<news:tqrvig$t836$
1@tilde.club>
<nntp://news.tilde.club/local.test/425>
<
https://tilde.club/~xwindows/tools/netnews/groups/?local.test/425>
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