Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Suggestions DIR/NEW/REG and SHO/PRIO Message-ID: <8910222206.AA06833@uunet.uu.net> Date: 23 Oct 89 13:01:31 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 14 X-cc: GIH900@uunet.UU.NET >> (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. I'll throw this one back at the readership - It is a reasonable idea and is easily implemented - anyone willing to generate the code? Geoff