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

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-06-22, 16:56 GMT, Duncan wrote:
> > That would be a useful feature, certainly.  Have you bugged it 
> > (entered it on bugzilla as a feature request) yet?  If not, 
> > please do so.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450368

I'm going back some years here and my recollections may be inaccurate as 
to specifics, but the feature did exist.

Older versions of Netscape Communicator news client (up to 4.xx) had a 
feature similar to this.  I believe it involved manipulation of the 
newsrc file either at the server end or the user end.  Those 
manipulations added by the user would be overwritten if the newsrc file 
was updated.  For instance, the newsrc contained the entry:

netscape.communicator "Netscape Communicator"

By setting a user preference Netscape Communicator would appear in the 
group list.

For those groups that did not have a "pretty name" (I think that was the 
term used), users could hand edit the newsrc file and add one using the 
format shown.

I'm a little fuzzy on whether or not Pan segregates subscribed groups 
from the entire groups list.  It doesn't appear to work that way. 
Netscape used (IIRC) a hostinfo.dat file containing all available groups 
and a newsrc containing subscribed groups.

Perhaps this will jog another reader's memory and we can get more 
accurate information.

Rinaldi
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