[NNTP] LISTGROUP

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Mark Crispin pointed out a couple of things about LISTGROUP that I think
> are worth considering.
> 
> First, the command is pretty widely implemented, and it's not obvious
> anything useful is gained by making it optional.  If we're going to make
> NEWNEWS mandatory, LISTGROUP is a lot easier to implement and more widely
> supported right now, and that would get rid of one of our capabilities
> that we have to keep track of.

If we want to make it mandatory, the VERSION 2 or READER capabilities 
can certainly encompass that.


> 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.

This is fine by me especially if we make LISTGROUP mandatory.

If we don't make it mandatory and leave it as a separate capability, 
perhaps we add an optional RANGE parameter to the LISTGROUP capability 
to advertise this.

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