157822 - Can/should we skip adding a bogus newsgroup to a server using autosubscribe?

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

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Build ID: Latest trunk, all OSs.

Summary: Can/should we skip adding a bogus newsgroup to a server using
autosubscribe?

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Firstly, if you enter a non-existant news://badurl url, you get 'Would you
like to subscribe to foo'?   This behavior comes from the implementation of bug
40033.

2.  Secondly, 'The newsgroup foo does not appear to exist on the host
news.mcom.com.  Would you like to unsubscribe from it?' Bug 39584 is for this.

Could we logically extend the code in bug 40033 to not subscribe to an invalid
newsgroup, or is that too dangerous?  Obviously, then we wouldn't receive the
prompt in bug 39584, because we wouldn't have anything bogus...

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"