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From: cliff@SSD.HARRIS.COM (Cliff Van Dyke)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Subject Threaded List of Articles
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Date: 17 Oct 89 20:02:05 GMT
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Reply-To: cliff@hcx3.SSD.HARRIS.COM (Cliff Van Dyke)
Organization: Harris Computer Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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I'm an 'rn' user. I use the -S option to allow me to read my articles 
in a "Subject Thread" order. However, there are several newsgroups
that I check out the subjects of before I read any articles. I use
= at the newsgroup selection level to give me a list of subjects.
So far, so good.

Instead of =, what I really want is a list of subjects with only the first
unread article in any Subject Thread listed. That way I wouldn't have to wade
through screens full of article subjects that are identical.

I've tried

	/./|my_own_filter_for_doing_this

but that takes too long to get all the articles thru SNTP. I really
just want the subjects anyway. What I really want is:

	/./=|my_own_filter

but that doesn't have the semantics of dumping the output of = into
my filter.

Hints would be appreciated.

Even if there is no answer, 'rn' is still the best news reader I've used. :-)
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Cliff Van Dyke                   cliff@ssd.harris.com
Harris Computer Systems          cliff%ssd.harris.com@eddie.mit.edu
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