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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn?
Summary: cost/benefits/functionality
Message-ID: <654@wet.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 17:23:45 GMT
References: <1085@shiva.misemi> <2831@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <885@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <885@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> storkus@arrakis.nevada.edu.uucp
	(Mike Storke N7MSD) writes:
>  Well, if those news readers (Vn, nn) are so superior to rn, then why is it
>that more administrators don't get them as a replacement?

Does it reorder .newsrc the way it wants, rather than the way I
want?

Does it support KILL files?

Will it run with the customary netnews data files, or does it need
its own proprietary database and a daemon to maintain them?

Will it work with only NNTP to read news?  (There are machines
without NFS!)


I'm still waiting for something "superior" to rn.

					-=EPS=-