Since going over to kde-4.3, the newsgroup names have all become abbreviated in a more or less unintelligible way, eg the Gmane newsgroups are g.c... g.c... g.l.... etc Widening the Names column, even to the whole screen width, does not help. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland