ietf-nntp LISTGROUP

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylofkbjqzq.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> * LISTGROUP is not actually that generally useful enough of a command to
>   put a lot of effort into reinventing and force client upgrades to use
>   the new command.  My intuition is that not many people use LISTGROUP,
>   since one can get the same information from OVER and the client usually
>   has to send OVER anyway.

I agree. In fact I would seriously consider removing it entirely, except
that a few clients that use it appear to be falling out of the woodwork.

So we either remove it (it would remain in the extensions RFC), or leave
it in its broken state, or fix it and hope noone notices (I presume the
existing clients that use it would not care).

I could live with any of those, but I suppose the middle one is what we
will most likely do.

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