[Pan-users] Re: Newsgroup "descriptions"

[Duncan]

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^)

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