Pratik wrote: > > On 2/26/2002 11:22 PM, JTK wrote: > > Well, small praise: I've found that Mozilla's newsreader beats NC4.7x's > > in one (and only one) area: loading the "index" or "cache" or whatever > > it is that gets loaded when you select a newsgroup is somewhat faster. > > It's particularly noticable on "large" newsgroups such as this one: it's > > painfully slow to load on NC4.7x, much less painful on Mozilla. Now if > > AOL could just figure out that I don't want DOUBLE SPACING GOD! > > Double spacing god? Whats that? >
The two blank lines it would have put on top of this if I was using Mozilla right now. > > Ok, enough praise, I'm starting to feel ill. So here's the suggestion, > > and honest to God this'll put you over the top (well, once you fix all > > the defects): have the newsreader poll for new messages. No newsreader > > I've ever used does this. Do it every X minutes (x of course > > selectable) and every time you post. Now tell me that would not be > > sweet. > > Edit->Mail/News Preferences-><Your-Server>->Server Settings > > There's an option for Check for messages every x minutes. Were you > looking for something like that or something completely different? > Huh, I'll have to check that out. It apparently defaults to "never" (==wrong) or I would have noticed it. What I was really looking for though is when you post for it to immediately show up as well, I know it doesn't do that, at least not by default. There's no excuse for any newsreader to not do that, and yet none I've used do. It'd be one more selling point for Mozilla to ofset the problems in the basic features. Hell, if you can't get the basic stuff right, might as well not get the fancy stuff right instead, no? > Pratik.
