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From: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: How do you use nn?
Keywords: nn rn
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Date: 3 Jul 89 16:23:17 GMT
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jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:

> I have gotten nn working on my system, and read news with it.  I still
> have an operator mindspace problem.  I cannot figure out how to adopt
> it to my usual newsreading style, which is to peck away at groups
> (read a few articles, junk some more, then move on, coming back to
> those I did not decide about later).  I am used to newsreaders (mainly
> rn at this point) which will mark individual articles unread.

This could be done in nn, if somebody cares to do it.  I know Kim Storm is
very open on this subject.

> What is a typical user session with nn like?  Are you forced to
> dispose of a newsgroup entirely, or leave it entirely untouched,
> possibly having to wade through many articles you have already read
> when you revisit?

I think most of us have made a group sequence in our init file, so we see the
most interesting newgroups first, and the read news the sequentially.

> nn is a very impressive effort.  At this point I find it to be like
> the play Hamlet.  Clearly a brilliant effort, but otherwise completely
> perplexing.  I feel I must be missing something.  Should I alter my
> newsreading style?  Do I need to, in order to use nn?

It is my impression that nn is very much targetted against reading the
different groups in a sequential fashion, with a customisable presention
sequence. 

If the normal case is that you want to return to a specific subject, you can
use the `x' and `s' options.

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk).