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From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
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Date: 5 Jul 89 15:10:55 GMT
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Flash apparently doesn't like nn.

Some of his criticisms are valid, like killing not taking effect right
away, but then rn doesn't either, if you manually edit the kill file
(control-k) from within rn.

I find that in my setup (mac-ii running a/ux, articles retrieved from
another campus via nntp) that nn beats rn hands down, because of its
local database for headers.

I have found other problems with nn, such as not being able to define
your article or mail headers (like rn allows you to do), but everything
I've mentioned on the nn-info or nn-bugs mailing list has received 
a reply. Some patches have already been released.  NN is far more
organic than rn.  Since I've installed nn, I haven't used rn *once*.
I've resubscribed to groups which I had given up because of their high
noise content. And I've actually been able to read high-activity groups
before articles start to expire. 

NN isn't perfect, but in our setup here it beats any other newsreader
we've tried.


aem
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