LIST ACTIVE.TIMES

    The active.times file is maintained by some news transports
    systems to contain information about the when and who
    created a particular news group. The format of this file
    generally include three fields. The first field is the name
    of the news group. The second is the time when this group
    was created on this news server measured in seconds since
    January 1, 1970.  The third is the email address of the
    entity that created the news group. When executed, the
    information is displayed following the 215 response. When
    display is completed, the server will send a period on a
    line by itself. If the information is not available, the
    server will return the 503 error response. This command
    first appeared in the UNIX reference version.

2.1.3.1 Responses

        215 information follows
        503 program error, function not performed