[Pan-users] Re: Newsgroup "descriptions"

[Jim Henderson]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:05:55 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Jim Henderson <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 22 Jul 2008
> 18:20:15 +0000:
> 
>> I just noticed (as a result of a conversation with another NNTP user
>> about this) that 0.132 doesn't seem to display the description fields
>> returned by the news server when using the "list newsgroups" command.
>> 
>> Or have I missed a setting somewhere?
> 
> Hmm... You're right.
> 
> It's a consequence of the UI design used.  Since unsubscribed groups are
> listed in the same list... there's no separate list of groups along with
> their description to look at, and it would seem kind of odd to have them
> beside some (as not every group has a description listed) but not all
> groups in the existing list.
> 
> I'm surprised that isn't a part of GNKSA.  Given the value Charles
> places on maintaining that, if it was, descriptions WOULD be displayed. 
> He'd find a way! =8^)

The thing is, I can see that the descriptions might be useful for 
unsub'ed groups as well as sub'ed groups.  If I were looking at a list of 
groups (like on forums.opensuse.org) and trying to decide which groups to 
subscribe to, a description (if the server presented it - that one 
doesn't, but is where the discussion came up and I realised that I'm not 
seeing it in pan-ng when it was there in old-pan) would be very helpful 
if the name wasn't entirely intuitive.

Jim
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