{"id":65,"date":"2005-12-14T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-11-30T21:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:37:28","slug":"newsgroup-subscriptions-like-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/newsgroup-subscriptions-like-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsgroup subscriptions like bookmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8230;<br \/>\nSubscribing to newsgroups is very similar to subscribing to RSS feeds. I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a> extension called <a href=\"http:\/\/sage.mozdev.org\/\">Sage<\/a> to read RSS feeds. Sage contains the list of subscribed feeds within a folder in my Firefox bookmarks. This allows me to:<br \/>\n&#8211; sort the list via &#8216;sort by&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8211; re-arrange feeds via drag and drop<br \/>\n&#8211; rename feeds<br \/>\n&#8211; add separators in the list<\/p>\n<p>These would all be great features for the list of subscribed newsgroups in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getthunderbird.com\/\">Thunderbird<\/a>. [<a title=\"User should be able to reorder the Newsgroups like in NS4\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=150274\">150274<\/a>, <a title=\"Aliases for newsgroup-names in folder pane\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=132247\">132247<\/a>] Instead, Mozilla plugs straight into the RC file. Perhaps, it&#8217;s time to put a buffer between two, allowing the program to customize the list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a coder, so I don&#8217;t know how complicated it would be, but it&#8217;s just an idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8230; Subscribing to newsgroups is very similar to subscribing to RSS feeds. I use a Firefox extension called Sage to read RSS feeds. Sage contains the list of subscribed feeds within a folder in my Firefox bookmarks. This&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/newsgroup-subscriptions-like-bookmarks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}