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Virtual newsgroups

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 2:27 pm
by Vega
Hi,

There is any way to create a persistent (virtual) newsgroup or anything that contains all headers from other specific groups?

For example:
Can i create virtual groups named like mmnew, mmkill, mmmarked, etc that contains all headers from alt.binaries.multimedia and the alt.binaries.movies groups, but each would have different filtering. In the mmnew i could only see the new headers, in mmkill the autokilled headers, etc.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 4:05 pm
by blackdog56
You do it by creating folders, assigning the groups to them, and then putting a different initial filter onto each folder.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 4:26 pm
by Vega
Not good enough, one group can't be in more then one subfolder.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 4:39 pm
by Vega
Hm, it's working, creating sub-sub folders.
It's really inefficient, and only one can be open at a time, but working...

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:01 pm
by alex
you can open as many windows as you want, press ctrl+w to switch between them fast.

i find having newsgroup in one folder reasonable, exhausting the universe of possibilites is not always a good choice since all becomes more messy.

you can use manual joining of groups to achieve an arbitrary combination.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:05 pm
by NoNo
Hi!
It seems like u are as much weird than I am ! :wink:
I already discuss this kinda of mater with Alex :)
For this to work u need for ur sub-folders to setup some fake newsgroups :
- mmnew
-- mmkill
--- mmarked
----- alt.binaries.multimedia
----- alt.binaries.movies
----- alt.binaries....
--- fake.mmkill
-- fake.mmnew

In fact u must set one fake group for a folder which contains just another folder.
So u will be able to open those folders at the same time with differents filters applying to the same newsgroups.
Cya.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:13 pm
by NoNo
True true Alex ! :)
well just wanted to help a little.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 10:03 am
by Vega
Thanks for the help everyone!