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Also known as: LIST
Returns server-wide information, most often the full list of carried newsgroups with their high and low water marks and posting status. Variants include LIST ACTIVE.TIMES for creation dates, LIST NEWSGROUPS for one-line descriptions and LIST OVERVIEW.FMT for the overview field order. On a server carrying over a hundred thousand groups the plain listing runs to several megabytes, so clients cache it.
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