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Also known as: GROUP
Selects a newsgroup for the rest of the session. The server replies with the estimated article count, the lowest and highest article numbers it holds, and the group name, then sets the current article pointer to the first article. Almost every reading operation depends on it, since ARTICLE, HEAD and OVER take article numbers that only mean something inside a selected group.
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