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From: charleen@deimos.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Looking up an article by number in rn (was: Cancelling Post)
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Date: 21 Sep 89 23:59:45 GMT
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In article <1989Sep21.232001.14698@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>
>Modern newsreaders (those that have come since "readnews" and "vnews")
>tend to be pretty powerful without calling on extra shell programmes
>and .newsrc editing to see what you want to see.  Take a little extra
>time to go over manuals for them; you might well be pleasantly
>surprised to find features you never knew existed.

And to forestall the inevitable wails of "But reading the man page for
rn is so *painful*!", allow me to mention that there are several guides
to news that you can pick up in any good computer book store.  One is
_The Netnews Reference Guide_ published by ASP, San Jose, Calfiornia
(ISBN 0-935739-10-6).  For a couple of bucks, this handy little
pamphlet contains a lot of easily accessible information on readnews,
rn, vn, vnews, administration and system commands, and newsgroup
descriptions.  99% of all the questions asked in this newsgroup about
news and newsreaders could have been answered by reading this simple
36-page pamphlet.

Think of it as RTFM insurance.

Charleen Bunjiovianna
System Administrator
Advanced Decision Systems