Seth Spitzer wrote:
> Jeremy Taylor wrote:
>> 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.
This isn't a solution, perhaps, but if the whole name will fit in the
sidebar, why not show it, otherwise shorten it as necessary?
>> 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?
Sounds like the ordering is being done on the abbreviations, not on the
names themselves. So:
n.comp (nz...)
n.p.general (netscape...)
n.p.m.mail-news (netscape...)
n.r.c.general (nz...)
n.r.h-b.general (nz...)
n.wanted (nz...)
instead of
n.p.general
n.p.m.mail-news
n.comp
n.r.c.general
n.r.h-b.general
n.wanted
The second example could be slightly inaccurate depending on the sort
order--is it strictly lexical, or "hierarchical" as well (i.e.
foo.general before foo.bar.general)?
--Peter J.
