Error using slrn

[Emmanuel Seyman <seyman moe acticiel com>]

Hey all.

I've got a little problem using slrn on a local nntp server I just setup.
The server is up and running but whenever I try to use slrn on it,
I get:

[seyman munshine seyman]$ slrn -f /home/seyman/.newsrc -create -h localhost
slrn 0.9.6.4 (Mar  1 2001 18:52:47)

Reading startup file /usr/lib/slrn/slrn.rc.
Reading startup file /home/seyman/.slrnrc.
Using newsrc file /home/seyman/.newsrc for server localhost.
Connecting to host localhost ...
Connected to host.  Posting Ok.
--The next step may take a while if the NNTP connection is slow.--

Creating /home/seyman/.newsrc.slrn fatal error:
Server failed LIST ACTIVE.

I thought this was a problem on a server side and decided to test it
using telnet:

[seyman munshine seyman]$ telnet localhost 119
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 acticiel.com InterNetNews server INN 2.2.2 13-Dec-1999 ready
LIST ACTIVE
215
control 0000000000 0000000001 y
control.cancel 0000000000 0000000001 y
junk 0000000000 0000000001 y
test 0000000000 0000000001 y
to 0000000000 0000000001 y
echecs.divers 0000000000 0000000001 y