Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5399 news.software.nn:861 Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn Subject: Re: thread following is nice (trn) Message-ID: <32384@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 90 00:40:37 GMT References: <32148@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: urth.acsu.buffalo.edu davison%drivax@uunet.uu.net (Wayne Davison) writes: |Paul Graham (pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote: |> well i've used trn for a bit and it's got some good stuff. the thread |> menu looks amazingly like an nn menu. letters, numbers, `.', `,', `@' |> are all there and do what you expect. | |Slight correction: ',' does NOT do what nn-users expect, unless you macro it. right, of course when i use comma to skip an article i never come back so the net effect is the same for me. [we talk about cross-group threading and empty nodes, i say it's a *major* flaw] |But I disagree that this is a major flaw in trn, just a lack of a feature. |It doesn't view all the groups together as a large meta-newsgroup and |allow you to slide from one into another. It would be nice to support |this sometime down the road, but for now, you read each group's discussions |separately. well perhaps major is too strong but i'm a big fan of this. i didn't realize how common it was until i started using gnews which follows references all over and realized that when i backtracked i was often in a new group. what i immediately thought was how this might be simple in the nntp environment. you have the reference, just suck over the headers, save state and proceed. | |> (aside, there goes another 6M to a database.) | |This may get better in the future. For one thing, I'm planning to spend |some time looking into a "newsreader database unification" project, that |would add the information I need to nn's database format in a way that |Kim could make use of somewhere down the road. This would only help those |sites that have both installed, though. it's ok by me. besides i'd guess few folks keep 3-4 weeks worth of news. i've changed the followup to .b only since this is tending toward being not of interest to the .nn folks.