416616 - mail start page should contain news/nntp links to support newsgroups

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7

When the Mail & Newsgroup screen opens, you can either have a blank screen or display chrome://messenger/content/start.xhtml.

Recently, when setting up a new profile, I had to select the groups I wanted to subscribe to on my Usenet server and on my server, free.teranews.com, I found groups for mozilla.wishlist, mozilla.support.firefox, mozilla.support.seamonkey and mozilla.support.thunderbird.

These groups, I believe, are not frequented by the Mozilla Champions, so the people who go there may be getting a lessor standard of assistance.

If the chrome://messenger/content/start.xhtml screen could be altered to include clickable links to the real groups on the news.mozilla.org server, I think it would be doing SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, at least, a bit of good.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Cick the Mail Start Page at Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups
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Actual Results:  
Screen shows with general info about Mozilla

Expected Results:  
General info to include clickable links to some appropriate newsgroups on the news.mozilla.org server

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Sounds like an idea, confirming RFE.
Cf. bug 220863.