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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: news reader --- more
Message-ID: <130126@gore.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 18:13:02 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Organization: Gore Enterprises
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/ simsong@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel) / Nov 29, 1990 /
> 3.	It will automatically build hypertext links between articles.

Nice.

What I would very much like to see is a threaded index:

1. All responses to a message are hidden behind the message that started
that thread.

2. The number of new responses is indicated for each thread.  (Or, at
least, a flag indicating that there are new responses.)

3. (Optional) the number of responses (old and new) indicated for each
thread).

4. A user command to toggle between an index showing all threads, and one
showing only threads with new responses.

5. Clicking on a thread should display a list of all articles (original
message and responses) in that thread.  The same user command as in #4
should toggle between an index showing all articles, and one showing only
new responses.

I've been using a major subset of what I describe below ever since I
started using Usenet.  This is the major reason I'm still using Notes
instead of the various News B or News C systems, despite Notes' many other
limitations.  The compressed index lets me keep up with 100 groups without
spending an enourmous amount of time on Usenet.

Jacob
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