Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!boring!guido From: guido@boring.uucp (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Digests (Actually using rn and digests) Message-ID: <6912@boring.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-May-86 19:54:17 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.6912 Posted: Fri May 16 19:54:17 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 14:57:24 EDT References: <1143@bunker.UUCP> Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 21 Keywords: digest, rn Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax In article <1143@bunker.UUCP> wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry) writes: >"rn" has several features which might help you a bit with digests. >First, the command ^G (control G) will display the next article within >a digest with the header information underlined. >[and continues with a macro to grep the digest for ^Subject:] Having started this discussion, I would like to object to this suggestion (and also to the slight undertone that I don't know how to use rn properly). ^G is completely inadequate for me. I want to be able to use *all* rn's services on the individual digests. You can't create macros that do the equivalent of 's', 'w', 'r', 'f', 'M', '^N' and several others (and even if you could, I'd object to the different command set for digests than for normal articles. Remember, "don't mode me out"). I will probably start an action sending personal mail to all the moderators of digestified groups. I'm going to fight digests until they're gone (or until rn hides the difference completely -- would this be possible, Larry? I assume not w/o changing the format of .newsrc). Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam