Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...) Message-ID: <1691@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 22:15:14 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.1691 Posted: Wed Dec 2 22:15:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 08:39:02 EST References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <1178@looking.UUCP> <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 15 Summary: Larry Wall just went back in his DeLorean again and added this... Xref: mnetor news.admin:1483 news.software.b:1007 In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: >Instead of putting in such a negative feature, it would be better to >work toward making it easier to for people to postpone their >followups. Doubtless some news reader already has this feature, but >unless a feature is put in most of the news readers, it will tend to >miss alot of people. The most popular newsreader, "rn", already has this feature. It's the 'M' command. This command marks a message as unread. After you complete reading the newsgroup, the 'M'ed messages return. That's what I use; any message I'm considering following up to I mark as unread and get back to it later when I have time. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net