Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)

[walt]

Beartooth wrote:
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> The point is that I try to keep each server's lists down to few enough to
> obviate the kind of scrolling a/o searching that I have to do if for
> instance I hear of some new list and have to go through the All Groups
> list on Gmane or Giganews to get to it...

I'm curious how many groups other people subscribe to.  I also have
a few very specialized news servers which carry groups that are not
propagated to usenet-at-large.  If I total up all those specialized
groups across all those servers I might get as many as twenty groups,
probably a bit less.  If I add the mainstream groups I subscribe to,
I'd wind up with maybe twenty-five groups at most, and probably less.

I don't find the idea of looking at a list of twenty groups annoying
or inconvenient, so I'm asking for other opinions:  how many groups
(in one list) are you willing to look at without feeling annoyed or
frustrated?

Perhaps there are other reasons for wanting to keep groups in a
subdirectory/folder/collection?  What about a MicroSoft employee who
likes to cruise the linux groups and offer help to linux newbies?
She might well want to create a folder called 'antichrist' in which
to store her list of linux groups.  (Dunno.)

Opinions?