Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david
From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News software 3.0 question
Message-ID: <170@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 03:27:44 GMT
References: <22283cb5:304b@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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In article <22283cb5:304b@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
[ deleted comments than rn might break under 3.0 ]
>But no fear. About all of what's interesting in rn is supported in 3.0 vnews
>anyhow -- keyboard macros, %-escapes, kill-files (though the latter aren't
>well-tested yet) and subject-list browse mode. And instead of hopping you
>between screen-oriented, more-like and cooked display modes everything is
>shown through a uniform screen-oriented interface.

Yea but everybody here already knows rn.  Are we really going to have to give
it up and retrain everyone to upgrade to 3.0?

Is vnews as good as rn?  Is it as easy to learn and use?  I really don't
have any experience with vnews.  Can someone please contrast rn and vnews
from the user's and also from the admin. points of views.  You can't
tell what it's *really* like from the manuals, so I'd like to hear from
people that have experience with both programs.
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