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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 89 17:27:52 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP> <402@laas.laas.fr>
Reply-To: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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In article <402@laas.laas.fr> ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:

>|  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.

Just make sure you have a pencil and paper handy so you can write down all the
numbers of the subjects you want to read.  NN nicely eliminates that by making
the computer your pencil and paper.  It also, IMHO, sorts everything nicely so
all related subjects are next to each other, eliminating searching thru all
the subjects for the same thing.

>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.

In maybe 6.4 or so, whenever Kim gets to it, NN will support leaving certain
articles unread (right Kim?), which will probably nead a different format,
maybe even the *standard* .newsrc file format.  What's the big deal about
having a different format anyways?  If you use NN why even need to bother with
RN?

-kareth.