ietf-nntp <distributions> parameter to NEWGROUPS and NEWNEWS

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> I'm seriously tempted to drop the code from INN, then, as the angle
> bracket thing is just odd, I don't consider distributions useful enough in
> practice to warrant the NEWNEWS performance hit, and while selecting what
> hierarchies you want to see new newsgroups in is vaguely useful, using a
> syntax to do it that is utterly unlike anything else in NNTP is nasty.

Besides which, hierarchies and distributions are in no sense the same
thing.

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