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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Message-ID: <657@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 22:25:37 GMT
References: <1050@unocss.UUCP>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <1050@unocss.UUCP>, by fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell):
> flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) writes:
> 
> Anyway, people who've been using vn and liking it will LOVE nn!

I don't

I read news by wandering from group to group and reading the articles
that interest me.  If I like the article I may go and have a look for
a followup, if I get bored with the argument I may stop reading the
followups and go look for something else.  NN requires me to guess
what I want to read before I start, otherwise I have to read an
article, hit the = key to go back to the menu and then select another
one to read and so on.  The keys are all uppercase which is a real pain
to keep typing and the administration is huge compared to rn or vn.

I used it twice, and then went back to vn.  Nicley written bit of
code, it just doesn't suit my newsreading style.


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