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From: welty@sunup.steinmetz (richard welty)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.software.b
Subject: Re: How long would it take to actually read all of news?
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Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 15:00:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 15:00:19 1987
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Summary: good interfaces help immensely
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In article <954@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Now this isn't to say that better news reading software can't help
>you read news faster.  I read news on a terminal that prints at
>10,000 chars/second, and I find 4800 baud too slow these days.
>I would like to be presented a menu of subjects, and click off the ones
>I want with arrow keys or a mouse, and then see those articles.

Ahh -- a friend of mine has written a mouse-oriented news reader for
Symbolics 36xx lisp machines, and it is marvelous.  It is quite amazing
how much faster news reading goes with such a system.  I'd dearly love
to see an equivalent for a Sun, but I don't have time to write one and
I have no idea on whether the available Sun window tools provide equivalent
support for such things anyway.  But it really is a beautiful news reader.
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