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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
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Date: 28 Jul 89 22:08:34 GMT
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In article <1989Jul28.130542.26274@isy.liu.se>, pell@isy.liu.se (P{r
Emanuelsson) writes:
> ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
> >After all, one spends most one's time straining 90% of the news, just
> >to get at the 5-10% that one's interested in.
> 
> That's the rn philosophy. With nn it's the other way around: fast selection
> of the 5-10% you're interested in. Hit spacebar and the other 90% goes away.

Actually, they're both useful.  As long as they're fast, kill files are
great, since sometimes there are things you will *never* be interested in,
and if these get thrown out early, it reduces the size of that 90%.  There
are also things that you will *always* be interested in, and it's very nice
to have them brought to your attention automatically.  To take a real life
example (gasp! :-)):  I read comp.text, since I use TeX and LaTeX a lot.
I have utterly no interest in troff and nroff, though, so what I do is to
have anything containing "roff" in the subject thrown out right off the bat,
so that I don't even have to scan its subject line, much less read the article.
On the other hand, I always want to see the TeXhax Digest, so I have anything
saying "TeXhax Digest" (without a "Re:" at the beginning :-)) highlighted
with a light gray background, so that it stands out real well.

Of course, this also goes to show that it can be useful to write your own
newsreader :-)...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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