Open Bug 339981 Opened 18 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Subscribe dialog box should display total number of newsgroups availabe on a newsserver as well as the latest refresh date

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: NNTP
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: stegozor, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0

To know how many newsgroups are relayed by a news server, there's a manual method:  see news:445d2c1e$0$168$a3f2974a@nnrp1.numericable.fr and its short thread (a summary : 
> Go to your user profile directory
> Go to the "News" subdirectory, and inside that to another subdirectory for the news server.
> Look in the latter subdirectory for a file called "hostinfo.dat".
> Now count the number of lines after the "begingroups" line.. )
But it would be much simpler if the subscription dialogue box could show the exact number of newsgroups available, as well as the latest refresh date (until Bug 40260 is fixed AKA until SeaMonkey shows automagically new available newsgroups as Outlook Express does ;)
Ah, one last thing : a maximize button for this box, as well as other similar windows would be nice : Bug 271743)

Reproducible: Always
Failed to find any dupes with +(count)|(number)|(many) +group -message -msg -unread
no luck finding a dupe either.  confirming NEW as this is an enhancement bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Whiteboard: DUPEME
QA Contact: networking.news
Sounds useful for a new subscribe dialog.
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Severity: normal → S3
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