[NNTP] LISTGROUP

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> 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,

EXCUSE ME!

NEWNEWS has always been mandatory. RFC 977 section 3 paragraph 3:

    Every command described in this section must be implemented by all
    NNTP servers.

But anyway:

> 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.

I don't have a significant problem with doing this. Is it a significant
load on servers?

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