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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: just a minor point, maybe
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d, S & M
Message-ID: <408@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 24 Aug 89 14:58:34 GMT
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In article <2803@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
|  In article <404@laas.laas.fr> ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
|  >Kareth, please don't be so naive.  One needs a *standard*, even
|  Well, I'm not.
|  
|  >possibly a *standard* .newsrc file.  When, for example, you're on a
|  >network with a plethora of newsreaders which are not uniformly
|  >distributed over all machines, but *all* can read your .newsrc file.
|  
|  But only one .newsrc can only apply to one machine right?  The numbers in it
|  aren't transferable around machines are they?  (Neither are nn's ither) Why
|  would you need to read news on all the different machines?  I've got a dozen

WRONG!!  With networked file systems one .newsrc and one login
directory can apply to a plethora of machines (here approx. 60).

|  plus accounts on different machines, and only read from one.  I only use one
|  newsreader (nn now) so I don't need to ever deal with rn or all the others.
|  Isn't that the way most people will work?  Use one newsreader only?  If I used
|  rn, why use readnews?  or vnews, gnews, etc.  Maybe there are some people who
|  do do that.  But I don't see a exactly why nn needs to use a .newsrc format
|  unless you are specifically going to be using both nn and rn/vnews/etc. which
|  would seem odd to me.

Multiple news readers are nice for those who ocassionally pre-treat
their news thru shell scripts.

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