[NNTP] LISTGROUP

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87k6nzkz0p.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Second, LISTGROUP would be much more useful for some purposes if it took a
>range as an optional second argument.  It's pretty trivial to specify that
>argument:  it would be identical to the ranges that OVER and HDR take, and
>LISTGROUP would function exactly as before but would limit the article
>numbers returned to articles within that range.  If there are no articles
>in the group within that range, an empty multiline response would be
>returned but everything else about LISTGROUP would remain unchanged.

I think we are a bit late for changing whether LISTGROUP is optional or
not, but I like the idea of a range parameter. Is that currently implemented
anywhere to anyone's knowledge?

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