108151 - Request: show newsgroups by 'description'

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37775

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

[Schelstraete Bart]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [NT]
BuildID:    20011031

If you subscribe to newsgroups, then you'll see the actual newsgroup name in
Mozilla.
In Netscape 4.x you could see these names by 'description' or 'display name',
which is more user friendly.
For example, if you create a newsgroup in NEtscape Collabra server called:   
mozilla.news   , and you give it a display name of 'Mozilla News posts'. And if
you subscribe in Mozilla to that newsgroup you 'll see 'mozilla.news' in the
list of subsribed groups. In Netscape 4.x you  saw 'Mozilla News posts'.....
thus that's more userfriendly.
Is there any possibility to add this feature to Mozilla? (maybe you can let the
user choose between 'description' and 'actual name'?)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open mozilla News
2.Subsribe to newsgroups


Actual Results:  YOu only see the actual newsgroup

see description

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

This bug is almost the same as #37775, although that bug implies the newsgroup
descriptions should only be fetched if the user requests this via an option.
Marking this bug as a duplicate of #37775, which is already assigned.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37775 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.