Jeremy,
> I would suggest a 2-step thing, the first being the thing already
> mentioned, on the Preferences:
> [tick] Abbreviate newsgroup names
>
> this would make the default abbreviation on all groups as they are now
>
> The next user action to customise this on a per-group basis would be
> to right-click the newsgroup and choose:
> Customise newsgroup name abbrev
> from the menu
>
> this would pop up a dialog box and provide a list/combobox of the
> options, eg:
> n.p.m.mail-news
> n.p.mozilla.mail-news
> n.public.mozilla.mail-news
> netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
Not bad! Please log an RFE bug in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org with your
design.
I'm not saying anyone is going to implement it, but it gives us a way to
track and discuss the idea.
>> Newsgroups for a given server are listed alphabetical. Are you
>> seeing something else?
>
>
> They are alphabetical, but not from the lowest level back to the
> highest. Using the example I mentioned, this is what I see in NS6:
> n.comp
> n.p.general
> n.p.m.mail-news
> n.r.c.general
> n.r.h-b.general
> n.wanted
That is alphabetical, from lowest to highest.
> Whereas I would expect them to keep to the hierarchy structure of the
> newsgroups like this:
> n.p.general
> n.p.m.mail-news
> n.comp
> n.wanted
> n.r.c.general
> n.r.h-b.general
I don't see how that is sorted. But all this would be solved if you
could order newsgroups like you could in 4.x.
putterman posted some comments about this, see his response in this thread.
-Seth
