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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Summary: ^N allows following threads
Keywords: white knight
Message-ID: <13275@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 89 21:02:13 GMT
References: <4380@yunexus.UUCP> <2938@husc6.harvard.edu> <829@pmafire.UUCP> <995@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <995@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
>The big problem as I see it with the multiple postings of the White
>Knight announcement (and many other postings for that matter) is the
>poor news software. There is no easy way to read threads of msgs, no
>way to know that someone has replied 10 times already to a msg you are
>replying to. You can list the msg subjects, but how many of us do that?

I dont know about Norm's version of rn, but all the ones that I have
used have the ability to follow threads by typing ^N (control-n) instead
of just n. ^N then becomes the default, so hitting the space bar is
enough to follow a thread - very easy, and I use it all the time. Try
hitting "h" or read the manual to see if your news reader does this. It
can save loads of time and net bandwidth.

>While I do not think there is an easy solution to this, there is room
>for improvement in News software so that as you enter replies, you can
>perhaps be informed that other replies are posted to this msg (because
>of the subject line) 

Even with ^N, this would definitely be a nice feature...