David ,
>
> Please, I'd be interested in seeing results to this test with a news
> server that has a more normal (i.e considerably more) number of
> newsgroups.
>
>
> Under the old configuration (before Seth put in the fix) I could
> easily "populate" the Subscription dialog for all the newsgroups on
> the Netscape server.
news.netscape.com is internal news server with 38,000 groups.
Were you thinking of news.mozilla.org or secnews.netscape.com?
> However, I could not come any where close to doing the same for my own
> ISP's NNTP server. I'd be interested in comparitive results for your
> average ISP's NNTP server.
When I wrote the code, I also tested it against news.supernews.com which
has more than 41,000 groups. It performs fine.
-Seth
