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From: ken@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Reducing multiple followups (Re: posting followups)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 12:29:15 EDT
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How about modifying {rn,readnews,vnews,nf} to warn the user that more
articles on the current topic remain unread when a {f,F,r,R} is
attempted? I am thinking especially of technical groups where a query
like "how does one do X?" gets 20 followups.

	Ken
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