[Pan-devel] Re: Pan 0.92... my first impressions

[Duncan]

freeslkr posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,
 on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:25:37 +0000:

> Charles Kerr <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> For some reason the group name seem to be in abbreviated form (r.a.tv for
>>> rec.arts.tv) by default when I started it up. Assuming that's the default
>>> choice, it seems like a bad idea as it's going to confuse newbies.
>> 
>> You're probably right.  I'll turn this off by default.
> 
> How about the ability to abbreviate all but the last two segments
> of the group hierarchy? So, gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel would
> abbreviate to g.c.g.a.pan.devel. This seems to be more readable
> for many groups (at least the ones that I read).  --freeslkr

Good point.  There's a number of alt.binaries.**.d groups as well, where
the second to the last element is more useful than the last element.

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