[Pan-users] Re: An "alias" feature for group names

[walt]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:33:36 +0000, Benjamin Esham wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently started to use Gmane to view most of my mailing lists
> (including this one).  I also have "abbreviate group names" turned on. 
> As a result, my group pane shows a number of group names like
> "g.c.a.p.user", "g.c.g.g.users", "g.c.g.i.user", and so on.  Obviously,
> this isn't very helpful or informative.
> 
> Would it be possible to implement an "alias" feature, so that each group
> has an alternate name that is shown when "abbreviate group names" is
> turned on? I don't think it's necessary to add a UI for this; I'd
> personally be fine with editing a text file.  This could be used to turn
> the aforementioned group names into e.g. "pan-users", "gnupg-users", and
> "inkscape-user".  Does anyone else think that this would be a useful
> feature?

+1 from me.  Do you know of any news clients that have this feature?