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From: cmp7130@sys.uea.ac.uk (R.M. O'Neill)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn?
Message-ID: <740@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Oct 89 09:10:26 GMT
References: <1085@shiva.misemi> <2831@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
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In article <1083@venus.misemi> chiprout@.UUCP (Eli Chiprout - test) writes:
>Is there no better alternative to rn?  Seeing that network news is so
>vital to communication, why doesn't some good programmer out there
>do with my time.  This posting shouldn't even exist.
>
>Am I alone in my feelings

There is a newsreader 'nn' which is a vast improvement over 'rn'. It is faster
and allows you to SELECT which articles you want to read (rather than just
presenting you with all of them and making you skip the trash, after half
reading it).l It also orders articles by subject and posting date (not arrival
date).

The source for 'nn' should be available from your nearest archive site for
the comp.sources.unix newsgroup (and other places too). [I have a list 
somewhere but I ain't gonna dig it out just now!]


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