[NNTP] CAPABILITIES and LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS/LIST MOTD

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> In this case (and Clive, please correct me if I'm wrong, since you're more
> familiar with the wording), LIST is the capability label and there's a
> general, blanket permission granted to add additional list types to that
> capability label.  Those additions don't have to begin with X.
> 
> I don't entirely trust my memory, but I think that was done that way
> intentionally since we know that existing servers support LIST extensions
> that we didn't want to either document or outlaw.

This sounds right.  The LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command (and its 
corresponding "SUBSCRIPTIONS" argument to the "LIST" capability) 
*should* be specified in a new document referencing the upcoming RFC 
3977.  Eventually, anything in RFC 2980 that's still useful should be 
specified in new document(s) and RFC 2980 moved to historical.

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