[issue10287] NNTP authentication should check capabilities

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> By always sending capabilities at connection, some servers immediately
> throw an error. I've modified the class initialization to include an
> optional parameter to indicate if this should be disabled.

Which kind of error? As Julien says, we could simply catch it and
proceed.
By the way, when sending a patch, please send a unified diff if possible
("diff -u"; if you are using Mercurial, this should be the default).

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