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From: CROBW@acad.cut.oz (Rob Wright, Curtin University, VMS Systems Group)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Suggestions DIR/NEW/REG and SHO/PRIO
Message-ID: <1114@acad.cut.oz>
Date: 17 Oct 89 04:06:51 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Two suggestions for improvement (IMHO) ...

(1) One can type DIRECTORY/NEW or DIRECTORY/SINCE and get a nice display of
    newsgroups which have had items added since the appropriate date.
    This display _includes_ any newsgroups for which the user is _registered_.
    So why not allow the construct DIRECTORY/NEW/REGISTERED to mean "display
    the _registered_ subset of these 'new' newsgroups" ?

(2) The ability to assign priority to a newsgroup while registering is very
    useful, but one soon finds that one has forgotten the relative priorities
    of many registered groups. Please add SHOW PRIORITY or SHOW/PRIORITY to
    complement REGISTER/PRIORITY.

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