[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> I think you were on the right track with a STATUS command, getting away
> from the whole extension concept which has turned out to be too limiting
> for what we're trying to represent.  How do you feel about going to
> CAPABILITY (just because that matches closer what other protocols use) and
> calling these capabilities instead of extensions?  Does that make it feel
> like less of a mess?

Extracting this one point - I'm very happy with a new command, and
CAPABILITY is just as good as STATUS as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not clear, though: is the intent to use this only for core
capabilities, or is it going to list extensions as well, thus replacing
LIST EXTENSIONS?

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