[NNTP] LIST COUNTS and LIST EXTENSIONS

[Urs Janßen]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:09:52PM +0100, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> It can be useful for news readers which indicate the number of
> articles in a newsgroup (otherwise, they have to send both LIST ACTIVE
> and GROUP for every subscribed newsgroup at startup).
>
> But not always easy to implement a *fast* answer to that
> command in news servers.
>
> Should we officially document it as a new variant of LIST?

Yes please (JFTR: I've implemented this in tin and tested against
Juliens patched server).

urs