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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <1989Jul6.024247.21653@DSI.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 02:42:47 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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Am I alone in my problem with NN.  I read news, using rn, by looking
at the subjects in a group and the reading those that interest me,
a bit at a time, then going to the next group.  Sounded perfect
for NN, but...

1.  All the command are capital letters.  Those are hard to type,
and easy to forget and hit the lower case equivalent, thus marking
articles on and off I had no intention of doing so.

2.  The default mode is to mark everything as read as soon as I go
off read the selected ones.  I know there is a key to return to this
group, but, if I think I am done, I used the default one, now its
more difficult to go back and keep those unread that it marked as read.

I often read an article, decide I want to reply, then go look for 
other replies to this article.  I found that also harder to do using
nn.  Again, I had to guess in advance that this is what I wanted to do.

I also miss the 'header' mode (or v mode) of rn,when I want to check out
a message.

I ran nn for one day and went back to rn.  It didn't seem to offer
me much for all the administrative work it took to keep it running.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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