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From: ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Summary: News readers are probably very subjective
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <402@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 26 Jul 89 14:12:23 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP>
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In article <1050@unocss.UUCP> fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
|  flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) writes:
|  
|  >If you've already used rn seriously, don't bother with nn.

As in my summary, to each his own!

|  I like the method of reading that nn uses: I can see all subjects and
|  pick from the ones that look interesting.  RN drives me nuts showing me
|  three lines for each article whether I care about the subject or not, and
|  no overview.  NN also sorts by subject.

Have you never heard of rn's '=' command, which the user may
customize.  Mine prints out subject, length, and author.

One reason that we have never bothered installing NN was for its
non-standard .newsrc file format.  By the way, has this been changed
in version 6.3, or the succeeding patches.  Thanks.

Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
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