[NNTP] Extension snapshots 2

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ken Murchison said:
>> It's not clear to me what the utility of noting whether an extension is a
>> transit, reader, or general command, given that they have their own
>> capabilities.  Could someone remind me why that's needed?
> 
> It probably isn't needed, and I was about to remove it, but I noticed 
> that the "standard" extensions in section 8 of base-pre5 note that they 
> are all reader commands, as do the IANA registrations in Appendix C.
> 
> Can you make a formal decision on whether we want this or not, so we can 
> have the base doc and extension docs do the same thing?

I'm still thinking through the rewrite of section 8 of the core document,
but I strongly suspect that this concept will disappear as a result.

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