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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: news reader --- more
Message-ID: <11973@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 01:39:56 GMT
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I'd like to mention at this point that I fully support Simon's
new newsreader, and am in fact looking forward to it.

I've had a bazillion ideas for News, but in truth as an undergrad I
just don't have time to do them.  Simon is a grad student doing his
newsreader for his dissertation, and he can afford to take the time
to really do it right.

His ideas are a complete superset of mine: that is, he's thought up
everything I had, and more.

There will probably be a next and final release of News.  It will hopefully
support posting, printing, and saving articles.  It will also hopefully
not have the bizarre bugs.  It will definitely support re-checking for
new news at intervals, changing the icon to reflect this, and saving
your .newsrc at intervals.  It may support following threads.

It'd be keen if it supported automatically marking some articles as extra
important.  (For example, I'd like to have everything written by Glenn
Reid moved to the top of the newsgroup when I enter it.)

-william shipley