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From: rock@ocean.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Rock Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs
Message-ID: <300@ocean.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 88 05:46:02 GMT
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Keywords: news rnews seeking improvements vnews vn vn.el
Summary: seeking improvements; why not try vn.el, I like it

With all of the banter about favorite emacs functions/modes for
reading the news, I've been surprised not to have seen vn.el
mentioned.  Bob McQueer wrote the original and posted it ~Sep 87
(sorry Bob, I lost your address).  Steve Murphy (murf@caeco.UUCP)
posted a corrected version mid October 87.

vn.el creates two buffers and executea a C program to generate a list
of unread news articles which it puts in the first buffer as follows:
==== Group: comp.binaries.ibm.pc =====
  312: Wanted: VT100 emulation ~ 7 (Sohan C. Ramakrishna-Pillai)
  313: Re: Wanted: VT100 emulation ~ 11 (Joseph C. Morris)
==== Group: comp.emacs =====
  1735: Documentation ~ 16 (Vallury Prabhakar)
  1736: Re: vt-100 function keys and GNU Emacs ~ 32 (Vallury Prabhakar)
  1737: Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs ~ 24 (Michael A. Petonic)
  1738: Prefrobnicate (was Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs) ~ 19 (Silver)

vn.el then provides a command set which allows you to traverse the
list of articles, reading those which sound interesting in the other buffer.

I'm really sold on vn.el.  Although I only closely follow a few news
groups, I like to monitor quite a few, a process made pretty painless
by vn.el.  You do need to have, I believe, GNUemacs version 18.4x or
thereabouts in order for it to work.  

DISCLAIMER:  My employer approves of neither me nor my opinions.

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