[ale] Expand newsgroup names in Mozilla Thunderbird

[scherrey at proteus-tech.com (Benjamin Scherrey)]

Does anyone know how to stop the newsgroups listing from using the 
shortcuts (i.e. comp.jobs becomes c.jobs) in Thunderbird? Under the full 
Mozilla its an option under about:config but I can't figure out how to 
do it in the standalone Thunderbird. Also - does Thunderbird have an 
option to display the number of total or read messages in a mail folder 
rather than just the unread count?
    thanx & later,

       Ben Scherrey