ietf-nntp LISTGROUP

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Stan O. Barber said:
> My recollection is that LISTGROUP was included only because there was at 
> least one client that absolutely would break without it. Personally, I 
> am not a big fan of the command.

According to the archives:

- It was added for nn.
- Agent uses it, falling back to XHDR.
- It is used by tin 1.22 and trn 3.6.

I also note that our LISTGROUP is *not* the same as the historic LISTGROUP,
in that we allow it to be called with no group name argument.

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