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Subject: Current notes or sequencing vnews or ...?
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Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 10:42:03 EST
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Folks around here are using 'notes' a lot for internal discussions, and
'readnews' or 'rn' for usenet.  There is some dissatisfaction, and I thought
I'd prod y'all to get some recommendations.

Notes seems to have a lot of persistent problems with permissions and using
huge amounts of disk space.  It also bombs out bizarrely on occasion, with
messages that aren't very useful.  (Whaddaya mean, "Permission denied"?  On
what file?  Why does notes complain that there's no "core" file?)

The one nice thing that people have to say about 'notes' is that it knows
how to group responses (followups) with the base note, and lets you sequence
through them as a sublist.  The versions we have of 'rn' and 'readnews' and
'vnews' don't seem to do this.  

I've considered hacking vnews to make it show followups with the base
article.  This doesn't look too hard, but then again, it doesn't look
totally trivial.  Has someone out there done it already?  Can I save
some time by getting your version?

Is there perhaps a New, Improved edition of 'rn' that does this?  (Maybe 
ours will, but it just isn't documented? :-)  

Or maybe there's another glorious user interface that does it all?  

I'm also tempted to convert vnews into a mail interface, while I'm at it.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a pseudo-newsgroup called 'mail' that 
contained all your personal mail and could be read or answered just like 
any other newsgroup?  Of course, it would be moderated and archived....


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	John Chambers	(617)247-1155
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[No, I don't work at cdx39 any more.]