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From: jim@piggy.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
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Subject: Re: Interactive v42bis
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Date: 28 May 91 20:37:49 GMT
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tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
>Your screens fill much faster.  If you're like me and skip over at 
>least half of what is sent to you, this greatly improves your 
>productivity.  V.42bis is extremely well-suited to interactive text 
>applications such as reading email and newsgroups.

Off the subject, but if you do tend to skip a lot of articles, try
out the nn newsreader.  Instead of paging through all articles in a
newsgroup, you are first presented with the Sender's Name and Subject
Line in groups of 20 or so per screen.  Mark the ones you want, and
then you only read those.  I've saved a considerable amount of time
in newsgroups this way.  Especially groups like misc.forsale.computers
where I may be interested in only about 5 out of the 100+ daily 
postings.  Nn is available at an archive site near you!

(Not to mention that subject searches are blazingly fast!)

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