Yes. The first one is how I would in visage it. Else it would kinda defeat
the reason for having it IMHO.
My main problem isn't that they're all one big list. But that I have a few
on the same subject that start with different prefexis like alt./rec. etc.
They all get mixed up.
Maybe if mozilla has a decent enough virtual folder system. That's all we'll
need.
IE, you'd have the normal list
v-[ ] Newsgroups
v-[ ] news.some.server.net
|-[ ] alt.blah
'-[ ] comp.blah
v-[ ] news.another.server.com
'-[ ] alt.stuff
and then you could just create a folder and sub folders, and when you drag
the newsgroup in, it creates an alias, so the group is still in the normal
newsgroup node/folder.
more like:
> v-[ ] My custom folder
> v-[ ] Computing
> | v-[ ] Browsers
> | >-[ ] Mozilla
| '-[ ] Notes on mozzilla bugs (a notes folder)
> v-[ ] UK Groups
> v-[ ] Computing
> | |-[ ] uk.comp.homebuilt
> | |-[ ] uk.comp.misc
| '-[ ] Good posts to keep (a mail folder)
> v-[ ] Local Groups
> |-[ ] uk.local.bristol
> >-[ ] uk.local.london
and:
v-[ ] Mozilla
v-[ ] mozilla contacts
>-[ ] emails and stuff
v-[ ] notes
| |-[ ] bugs
| |-[ ] suggestions
| '-[ ] error codes
v-[ ] mozilla newsgroups
|-[ ] netscape.stuff
'-[ ] netscape.other.stuff
"Iain Hallam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Justin wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this has been posted before. But I can't see it here, or in the
> > news/mail UI specs at the mozilla site.
> >
> > What the newsreader really needs are folders. I subscribe to quite a few
> > various newsgroups. Not in one newsreader I have ever used, have I been
able
> > to create folders to sort them all out, like you can do with e-mail
folders
> > etc. I think it would be really handy.
> >
> > Does anyone else see this as a good, worthwhile feature?
>
> I'd love this feature, but there are two ways it might be implemented.
> You seem to be suggesting that you'd like to create a tree of folders
> with which each group could be associated, such as:
>
> v-[ ] News
> v-[ ] Computing
> | v-[ ] Browsers
> | >-[ ] Mozilla
> v-[ ] UK Groups
> v-[ ] Computing
> | |-[ ] uk.comp.homebuilt
> | '-[ ] uk.comp.misc
> v-[ ] Local Groups
> |-[ ] uk.local.bristol
> >-[ ] uk.local.london
>
> This can be likened to the Virstual folders that have been proposed in
> several places, but I'm not sure if any progress has been made on them.
>
> The other way simply takes the folder names from the existing hierarchy,
> e.g.:
>
> v-[ ] news.f9.net.uk
> v-[ ] netscape
> | v-[ ] public
> | >-[ ] mozilla
> v-[ ] uk
> v-[ ] comp
> | |-[ ] homebuilt
> | '-[ ] misc
> v-[ ] local
> |-[ ] bristol
> >-[ ] london
>
> This is probably easier to implement, in that it doesn't need virtual
> folders to be implemented first, and also doesn't need to maintain
> mappings between newsgroups and their virtual folder. See also
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38931
>
> - Iain.
>
