From 68418615fe0506660e6c909e2c29e13b6c03a8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:19:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] minor robustness fix

---
 trunk/ripnews/net/nntp.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/net/nntp.rb b/trunk/ripnews/net/nntp.rb
index c174d23..e80d20a 100644
--- a/trunk/ripnews/net/nntp.rb
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/net/nntp.rb
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ class NNTP
     puts "*getresp* #{resp}" if @debuglevel > 0
     c = resp[0]
     case c
+      when c == nil then raise NNTPProtocolError, resp, caller
       when c == '4' then raise NNTPTemporaryError, resp, caller
       when c == '5' then raise NNTPPermanentError, resp, caller
       when '123'.include?(c) then raise NNTPProtocolError, resp, caller