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From: pjg@urth.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: group at a time interface and NNTP etc.
Summary: use gnews
Message-ID: <7897@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 12 Jul 89 21:51:25 GMT
References: <3602@looking.on.ca> <364@texas.dk>
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Reply-To: pjg@urth.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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In-reply-to: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)


ok, ok.  if you want a list of subjects but like rn *and* you don't
mind running gnu emacs then try gnews or maybe gnus (i use gnews).
you don't need the extra NNTP support brad mentioned because gnews
sorts the subjects so it needs them all.  i think sorted subject lines
are worth the delay.  gnews has a simple command to kill a thread or
*delay* it until another time and looks very much like rn since that
was the model.  naturally since it's written in elisp you can change
much of it's behavior in a straightforward way (assuming you program
in lisp).  i used rn for years.  i've been using gnews for about a
year and a half.  i'd never go back.  available at berkeley.edu.

now if we could just depend on the references: line.

--
paul