lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm | 5 +++--
 t/nntpd.t               | 6 ++++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
index 0d2bc4f33d8b46f471e12b8fcaf3d17074bf4533..800ce9265268eec77b240acfee66ecb82c74ca99 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ };
 use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLONESHOT);
 use Errno qw(EAGAIN);
 
-my @OVERVIEW = qw(Subject From Date Message-ID References Xref);
-my $OVERVIEW_FMT = join(":\r\n", @OVERVIEW, qw(Bytes Lines)) . ":\r\n";
+my @OVERVIEW = qw(Subject From Date Message-ID References);
+my $OVERVIEW_FMT = join(":\r\n", @OVERVIEW, qw(Bytes Lines), '') .
+		"Xref:full\r\n";
 my $LIST_HEADERS = join("\r\n", @OVERVIEW,
 			qw(:bytes :lines Xref To Cc)) . "\r\n";
 my $CAPABILITIES = <<"";
diff --git a/t/nntpd.t b/t/nntpd.t
index e264fa6b5abbbfe255291b22670cc6952fdb3d94..bebecc6920d947939f644bae675123fcd1b3f4c3 100644
--- a/t/nntpd.t
+++ b/t/nntpd.t
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ 	is_deeply($list, { $group => [ qw(1 1 n) ] }, 'LIST works');
 	is_deeply([$n->group($group)], [ qw(0 1 1), $group ], 'GROUP works');
 	is_deeply($n->listgroup($group), [1], 'listgroup OK');
 
+	{
+		my $expect = [ qw(Subject: From: Date: Message-ID:
+				References: Bytes: Lines: Xref:full) ];
+		is_deeply($n->overview_fmt, $expect,
+			'RFC3977 8.4.2 compliant LIST OVERVIEW.FMT');
+	}
 	SKIP: {
 		$n->can('starttls') or
 			skip('Net::NNTP too old to support STARTTLS', 2);