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From: rene@ascom.uucp (Rene Bach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: What newsreaders are there out there?
Keywords: news rn newsreaders software
Message-ID: <247@ascom.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 07:27:20 GMT
References: <698@biar.UUCP>
Reply-To: rene@ascom.UUCP (Rene Bach)
Organization: Ascom Tech AG, Solothurn, CH
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In article <698@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>Having puttered around the net for the last couple of months, I have become
>more and more dissatisfied with the newsreading software I am using (rn).

Same here. I've heard about the emacs interface. What can that one do ?

My suggestion would be that the result of the = command gets put into a mouse
sensitive window where I then click the messages I want to read.  Can the emacs
based version do that ?

Another useful facility would be to be able to bring to the attention of
colleagues some interesting messages.  The easiest, but most space consuming
would be to add a forward command to RN and forward the whole message to the
person, using the mailer.  Are more clever mechanisms possible ?

E.g.  a "brought to attention" list of messages that would be added to the .rn
log file ?


Rene

rene@ascom.uucp
Switzerland