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From: allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <1989Jul30.191745.2075@nc386.uucp>
Date: 30 Jul 89 19:17:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)

In article <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, asd@mace (Kareth) writes:
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| 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?
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Because while I usually read all of the available news, sometimes I want to
pick and choose the important stuff now and save the rest for later.  NN would
be useful for that... except that it marks everything as read, so I can't come
back later with rn and read it.  So I bit-bucketed the thing.

++Brandon
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