162669 - Include servername in subscribe dialog for 'news' URIs.

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

if you click on a link like this:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup
and dialog saying:
"Do you want to subscribe to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup"

I'd like a dialog saying:
"Do you want to subscribe to the newsgroup
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup
from the newsserver
msnews.microsoft.com"

and if it's a snews server:
"Do you want to subscribe to the newsgroup
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup
from the secure newsserver
msnews.microsoft.com"

20020813

Comment 1

[robinf]

Good suggestion. Just a couple of wording changes:

"Do you want to subscribe to the newsgroup
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup
on the news server msnews.microsoft.com"

and

"Do you want to subscribe to the newsgroup
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.setup
on the secure news server msnews.microsoft.com"

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

The text change is easy but I think there's also needed some code change at:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mailnews/news/src/nsNNTPProtocol.cpp#1136

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well in theory newsgroups aren't server specific...

Comment 6

[:aceman]

Yes, but maybe you want to avoid some specific servers for some reason and fetch the newsgroups from others.

This should be doable easily.

Comment 7

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

In theory newsgroups aren't server specific. But when you click on a subscribe link, you will subscribe to the server that is in the link and this one is maybe one you don't want.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Still true in the nntp-js world