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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <377@texas.dk>
Date: 6 Aug 89 17:35:57 GMT
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brent@capmkt.COM (Brent Chapman) writes:

> Arbitron works by reading the
>.newsrc file of all the users on the system.  If they're using nn, they don't
>have a .newsrc (or they have one that hasn't been touched in a while, if they
>used to use rn), and thus don't get counted in the survey.

The present .newsrc support in nn (include 'set newsrc' in the global
init file) should allow arbitron to run without any problems.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

To turn the ball back to all the people who think .newsrc is adequate
(I know it is standard, so don't tell me that :-):

Since nn automatically splits all digests into separate articles and
transparently handles these undigested articles as normal articles,
how do you suggest to use .newsrc to mark *part of a digest* as unread??

With the next release of nn (6.4), the nn counterpart to .newsrc will
be able to do this (this information is kept in files separate from
nn's rc file).

And with all the fuzz about .newsrc, I probably also include a more
complete .newsrc support in release 6.4.  But no promises....

-- 
Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
	  No news is good news, but nn is better!