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From: robert@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Robert Cray)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: RN wishlist
Message-ID: <554@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 16:14:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: jimi.554
Posted: Mon Apr 27 16:14:13 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 05:08:06 EDT
References: <862@chinet.UUCP> <522@omen.UUCP> <18445@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1568@munnari.oz> <2481@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: robert@jimi.UUCP (Robert Cray)
Organization: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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In article <2481@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) writes:
>I used to get Unix-wizards by ARPA mail, and that was ok.  Most articles
>I would read once and discard, keeping the good ones for later.  I could
>skip over long articles, and stop reading after any article, without
>losing my place.  When it became a digest, I was presented with 1000
>lines to read (without skipping) in one sitting, and if I wanted to
>come back to any article, I had to go through the whole digest.

So just use MH and do a burst -- this seems to work fairly well, you can
reply to messages just as if they were sent directly to you, you can read
messages in an entirely haphazard way, then  do a "scan unseen" to see which
messages you have not read yet.  Also, you can have such things automatically
refiled into their own folders before you ever see them, so they dont clutter
up your mailbox, and so you can keep track of what was really sent to you,
and what was sent to you because you are on a mailing list.

					--robert

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