How to change newsgroups name in Windows Mail

T

Tibelian

I am using Windows Mail on Vista 5384. I have Microsoft NNTP access
configured on this client and now I want a way to shorten the newsgroup
names.

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail

are similar until the last word and the width of the folders pane isnt wide
enough to accomodate this without scrolling about left and this is annoying.

Can I shorten the names of the newsgroups to just "vista.general" or
"vista.mail" or whatever?

I know Thunderbird can form 'acronyms' from the long newsgroup names like
m.p.w.v.general etc

- Tibelian
 
J

Jim Pickering

Short answer: not at this time. It's been asked for for many years, both
in Outlook Express and now in Vista Windows Mail and WLMD beta. Whether it
will ever be possible is not known. There are many other serious "bugs"
that need to be fixed first and at this point I don't think any added
"feature" would get favorable consideration.
 

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