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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Nextgen Newsreader (was Re: Semi-moderated newsgroups)
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.004842.16914@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:48:42 GMT
References: <1989Nov19.223239.26100@algor2.algorists.com> <10275@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <5271@omepd.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <5271@omepd.UUCP> by merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz):
+---------------
| In article <10275@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, linimon@attctc (Mark Linimon) writes:
| | 2. The more general case, which has been mentioned by several folks, is
| |    to expand the KILL file concept to a more general one: essentially
| |    a simple expert system where you could set the rules, such as
| 
| Just as Larry Wall has done with RN, introducing the concepts of
| "subject threads" and "kill files", stay tuned to the next release of
| RN (to be prototyped in Perl!) to bring in exactly those sorts of new
| concepts (at least, that's the impression I got from a recent
| conversation from him).
+---------------

It's not rn, but I think you and others will be pleasantly surprised in a few
days.  Just keep an eye on yours and my favorite newsgroup.  [ ;-) ]  (More I
will not say without permission from the submitter, by which time the actual
submission will already be on its way onto the net.)

++Brandon
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