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From: paul@devon.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.notes
Subject: Re: Current notes or sequencing vnews or ...?
Message-ID: <252@devon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 22:00:05 EST
Article-I.D.: devon.252
Posted: Tue Apr  7 22:00:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 05:14:50 EST
References: <403@haddock.UUCP> <1674@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
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Organization: Devon Computer Services, Allentown, PA
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Summary: not quite true

In article <1674@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
> In article <403@haddock.UUCP> johnc@haddock.UUCP writes:
> >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.  
> 
> RTFM. It's been a feature of rn since rn came out. It's the -S
> option. For simplicity, set RNINIT to all the rn options you want
> (or to the name of a file which cotains the options).

Although technically true, David's response is not exactly correct.
Rn's ``-S'' allows you to see articles grouped together by the
"Subject:" header.  Whereas, notes' autosequencer brings articles
together using the "References:" header (or lack thereof, indicating a
"base" note).

The notes method of doing things is better (in my opinion) as many
people munge the Subject line when replying, thereby breaking -S's
ability to follow a chain of replys.

Last time I heard anything on TMN Netnews software (are you listening
Eric?), the TMN version of vnews was going to have a notes-like
autosequencer function.

- paul

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