Re: Subscribing to newsgroups

[Seth Spitzer]

J. Kerr wrote:

> When I try to subscribe to newsgroups, Netscape 6 takes an eternity to
> come up with a list of newsgroups,

fixed, try a more recent Mozilla build.

> which is not searchable, 

not fix, there is an open book on this.

> and is not presented in alphabetical order.

fixed.

> So am I supposed to hunt manually
> through the 40,000 or so groups in order to find the ones I want to
> subscribe to?

All you can currently do is use "type down".  Start typing in the text 
field in the subscribe dialog and you'll see what I mean.

If you type "alt." you'll notice some performance problems, there is a 
bug on that already.

-Seth