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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Desire extra options for vnews/checknews
Message-ID: <338@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 11:26:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulowell.338
Posted: Mon May 19 11:26:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 21-May-86 01:32:55 EDT
References: <229@yabbie.oz>
Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
Lines: 34
Keywords: readnews, vnews, rn
Summary: Use 'rn' instead

In article <229@yabbie.oz> rcodi@yabbie.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
>I am running news V2.10.3, and would like to see the following
>options added to the system:
>
>1: a "B" command for vnews and readnews, that marks an article
>   as "boring", and causes all followups to be suppressed
>   from the "y/n" answering sequences.

Use the 'K' or 'k' commands in rn.  'k' acts like your 'B', and 'K'
means "I don't EVER want to see this subject."

>2: a way of "checknews" reporting that there is important LOCAL news
>   rather than just news.

Use rn and put your local news at the top of your .newsrc -- rn will
print the number of messages in the first five newsgroups.

>3:  a way of seeing the subject-lines in a batch at the start of
>    each newsgroup - much the same way that digests do now, so
>    you can skip reading the entire newsgroup if its all not
>    very interesting.

Use the '=' command of rn to see all subject lines, and the 'c' command
to catch up (don't read them).

>(ps:  I haven't implemented any of this -- yet)

No need to!

..Bob
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