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From: nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: Using only part of Gnews?
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Date: 24 Jun 89 02:25:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)

In article <965@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@crdgw1 (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:

|It was somewhat slower to use Gnews than rn, but not having to
|start up emacs for each mail reply or followup was worth the
|conversion to Gnews.

Gnews *is* much slower than rn and especially rrn, but I can read many
more articles using Gnews than rn.  It may take longer
article-to-article and group-to-group, but the index mode allows me to
cut 100 articles down to the most interesting few (using the
assumption that the Subject: header is representative of the article)
in much less time than it would take to go through each article's
header in rn.  I could use the = command in rn, but then you have to
write doen the numbers somewhere and explicitly set to each article.
I'll stick with Gnews, thank you!

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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