Jeremy Taylor wrote:
> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>
>
>> It is a preference, but not in the UI. (I thought at one point it
>> was, but I can't find it now.)
>>
>> You can turn it off on a per server basis. By default, it is on. to
>> change the default, add this to your prefs.js file:
>>
>
> On an individual group basis would be nicer I think - that way i can
> distinguish better between several "*.general" groups.
If you can think of a good way in the UI to allow the user to do this,
please let me know. Patches to implement it are welcomed, too.
> What bugs me about the names at the moment is that because of the
> abbreviations they are ordered really dumb - instead of nz.comp and
> nz.wanted being together, they are separated by
> netscape.public.general, netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news,
> nz.reg.christchurch.general, and nz.reg.hawkes-bay.general.
Newsgroups for a given server are listed alphabetical. Are you seeing
something else?
> the order should be user modifiable. IMHO.
I thought there was a bug on this, but I couldn't find it. Please log
it and assign it to me. The user should be able to reorder newsgroups.
-Seth