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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs
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Date: 28 Jan 88 14:49:32 GMT
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>> I'd like to
>> know if the news reading software included with Gnuemacs has been
>> developed further since 17.64

Apparently.  The 5 functions I advertised are all present before rnews
is loaded.  Once it is loaded, the apropos will get a lot more hits,
as you said.

>> I would certainly appreciate being able to access
>> rmail and other files simultaneously with reading news (and preparing
>> responses and articles), but i recall finding the faculties for
>> traversing newsgroups and finagling with the read- and unread-ness of
>> articles (ie, how they're registered by the reader during the session)
>> very cumbersome and sometimes faulty.  Any advocates or improved
>> versions of the news reading mode out there?)

Apparently.  I have two modified versions - one based loosely on (and
using) MH and one called vn (which mimics the VN newsreader).  These
both were sent via this newsgroup over the last year or so.
And I
have heard rumors of others.

/jr
jr@bbn.com or jr@bbn.uucp