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From: tp@mccall.uucp (Terry Poot)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Suggestions DIR/NEW/REG and SHO/PRIO
Message-ID: <1007@mccall.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 89 08:55:23 GMT
References: <1114@acad.cut.oz>
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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In article <1114@acad.cut.oz>, CROBW@acad.cut.oz (Rob Wright, Curtin University, VMS Systems Group) writes:
> (2) The ability to assign priority to a newsgroup while registering is very
>     useful, but one soon finds that one has forgotten the relative priorities
>     of many registered groups. Please add SHOW PRIORITY or SHOW/PRIORITY to
>     complement REGISTER/PRIORITY.

Better yet, have dir/reg and dir/new display the groups in order of
decreasing priority, rather than alphabetical, and also list the priority
on the dir display. This would greatly simplify managing priorities and
stepping through newsgroups selectively.

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