On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:05:55 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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 -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
