[NNTP] CAPABILITIES and LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS/LIST MOTD

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
> 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.

That's correct.

> 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.

Indeed, in my time we've dropped LIST EXTENSIONS and LIST DISTRIBUTIONS,
knowing that implementations can still provide them.

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