Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3509 news.software.b:6689 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b Subject: Re: News today (Re: news.today) Message-ID: <*&7Gwwk2@cs.psu.edu> Date: 20 Jan 91 20:49:34 GMT References: <123@integrat.UUCP> <26583@ucsd.Edu> <1138@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: guardian.cs.psu.edu >Every version of rn I've used (4.3 PL>=40) has an "o" command. Yes. "o" was one of the early features of "rn". And "rn" also has group name regexp searching. But that's not quite enough. How do I find "misc.headlines" if I don't know what its name is? I'd probably look for "events" or "current" or "news"; none of which will help. How do I find an appropriate group to talk about Buckminster Fuller? I have to look through 1100+ newsgroup names, and that probably still won't help. "rn" doesn't provide ready access to the group descriptions file either. How will you cope with over 10 000 newsgroups a few years from now? How do you cope with 1100 newsgroups now? -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu