From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: netiquette - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1961
Posted: Tue Apr 26 22:35:48 1983
Received: Thu Apr 28 02:26:25 1983

#R:sbcs:-27700:uiucdcs:10600098:000:1076
uiucdcs!grunwald    Apr 26 12:32:00 1983

re: use of notesfiles and structuring net junk

  I agree with Ray, not just because he's my office mate and would probably
lock me out if I didn't, but because I used PLATO for about 6 years before
moving to a UNIX environment.
  When I first got here, I tried to use "news". Bad deal. Very bad. I found
it very difficult to use -- there was no pagination, articles weren't
associated with each other and so on.
  When I started using Notes, I wondered why everyone on the net didn't use
it (resources aside). The structure it gives the net is much nicer than the
linear order of readnews.

  Also, I'd like to point out that the statistics that Ray mentioned come from
only ONE plato system, serving about 1000 terminals. Control data has about
15 other plato systems in the world, and they serve many many users -- all of
whom use notesfile quite a lot.
  Also, from a historical point of view -- PLATO used to have something like
"readnews", but around '74 or so they developed the notesfile interface.

					Dirk ("testimonial") Grunwald
					pur-ee ! uiucdcs ! grunwald