195026 - does biff make sense for news?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1751160

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

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

does biff make sense for news?

currently we have UI for it in account manager

and on biff, we'll update the unread counts (as if the user had expanded the
server twisty)

but that's not really biff, or is it?

should we hide the ui?  fix news biff?  future.

Comment 1

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futuring, news gets no love.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

I suppose this is beauty in the eye of the beholder. Someone spending a couple
hours a day on Usenet would love it. A more typical user probably wouldn't notice.

However, just because I'm on Usenet doesn't mean I don't want to know there's
incoming mail awaiting.

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

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

For what it's worth, I've had multiple independent requests for being able to monitor when new news comes in.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"