[NNTP] Misc changes

[Charles Lindsey]

In <42706591.7070406 at lovett.com> Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes:

>I also believe that it should be a capability in its own right (ie:
>'NEWNEWS' instead of 'READER NEWNEWS') -- there's no intrinsic reason
>why the list of message IDs generated would be used for only reader
>purposes -- ditto for NEWGROUPS, whilst the primary reason is
>undoubtedly for client newsreaders, it's not solely a reader command,
>and thus should not be compartmentalized as such.

Hmmm! If you are a pure transit server, then the only use for NEWNEWS
would appear to be for discovering what articles the server has already
got, to avoid sending them with TAKETHIS. Does anybody actually use it
that way? ISTM that is what IHAVE was meant for.

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