ietf-nntp LISTGROUP can't return 412

[Russ Allbery]

greg andruk <gja at meowing.net> writes:

> As traditionally implemented, the newsgroup parameter is required for
> LISTGROUP (a natural consequence of being an extended form of GROUP),
> while in the draft it is optional (analogous to ARTICLE and friends).
> Given the new feature, the new return code makes sense.

Ah!  I missed that.  I vote making the newsgroup parameter required rather
than adding the new functionality; the client can always do a LISTGROUP of
the current group to get that functionality (and INN at least already
optimizes that operation).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>