Re: [Pan-users] How do I get a header count for all groups?

[Travis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aniruddha" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] How do I get a header count for all groups?


> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 11:02 -0700, Travis wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Aniruddha" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:36 PM
>> Subject: [Pan-users] How do I get a header count for all groups?
>>
>>
>> > By default pan doesn't display the header count for each group 
>> > which
>> > can
>> > make it very difficult to tell which groups are worth subscribing. 
>> > Is
>> > is
>> > possible in pan 1.32 to get a header count for all? groups (just 
>> > like
>> > the stable version?) Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Why would one subscribe or not to a group based on article count?
>
> Because there are many man y newsgroups which look alike and which you
> can only tell apart by header count i.e.
> a.b.ebook-technical
> a.b.ebooks-technical
> a.b.ebook.technical
> a.b.ebook.technical
>
> etc. etc.

I would assume (I know I shouldn't) that some one told you about the 
group in the first place as opposed to you surfing the 100,000 + groups 
that are available.  So just go to the selected group.

I sometimes subscribe to a group just to see what is there and if I'm 
not interested I just unsubscribe.

So why not subscribe to all 4 and then unsubscribe the ones you don't 
want.

I don't see a difference between 3 and 4.

If implementing this function would cause Charles tons of grief I see no 
need for it.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington