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In article <828447240snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

> On Monday, in article <828393946snz@lyons.demon.co.uk>
>      Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk "Bill Lyons" wrote:
> 
> BL> I would like to suggest an item for the 'wish list' for the next update of 
> BL> Snews.
> BL> 
> BL> This is that the expiry days for each newsgroup be displayed on the Select 
> BL> Newsgroups screen.
> 
> [reasons snipped]
> 
> I feel that makes good sense.
> 
> I just tried a mock-up of this.  However, for my taste, whether on my
> normal 132 column screen, or a std 80, having 3 columns of numbers
> makes the display rather 'busy'.
> 
John, thanks for your approbation (right word?).

I take your point, but even on an 80-col screen I don't think it looks too 
'busy' if the expiry days are shown to the right of the group names.

> I would imagine I'd find it preferable to have the expiry displayed
> in the Select Threads and/or Display Article screen(s).  There
> would probably be space available somewhere in the top 3 rows.
> 
> However, Snews doesn't currently load the expiry info, so it's
> more than a 10-liner, regardless of quibbles about the presentation.

Unfortunately, my suggestions always turn out to be non-simple, it seems!

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