[NNTP] Status and issue resolutions

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ade Lovett said:
> Having read and re-read both the proposed changes, the relevant  
> sections of code in a number of news server packages, and spoken to a  
> number of people intimate with the workings of the more common  
> newsreaders, I remove my objections to the proposed changes to  
> LISTGROUP.

I'm glad to hear that.

> My concerns with making the "group" argument optional to GROUP  
> remain, however.  I don't believe this buys anything -- indeed, if  
> time were permitting, I would give serious consideration to  
> completely reworking GROUP/LISTGROUP -- the two commands are similar  
> yet subtly different I cannot help but feel this will come back to  
> bite us in the future.

I'm wondering what you mean by "similar yet subtly different".

At present, the *intended* differences are:
* LISTGROUP generates a multiline block after the initial 211 response
  (nobody was comfortable, way back when, with using a different number);
* LISTGROUP has a second argument that affects the contents of that block;
* the first argument to LISTGROUP is optional (with the consequential
  possibility of a 412 response).

Any other difference is unintentional and I'd really like to know what you
think there is.

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