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From: cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Homogeneous Subject Lines (was:v04i083: 3demo program - part 1 of 4)
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Date: 29 Sep 88 14:09:27 GMT
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The point is:  *every* small improvement in the ease of reading news is
immensely valuable,  particularly to professional readers like me.  My time
costs about $400 an hour and it takes at least half an hour per day just to
keep up with the few technical newsgroups that I read.  That's why I use "rn"
instead of "readnews":  the manipulation is so much more powerful.

Having to hit 'n' 20 times to get past a large source,  or compose a suitable
kill pattern (prone to mistyping),  is far more costly than hitting 'k' once.

So I add my voice to the appeal for homogeneous "Subject" lines.  The header
format is quite flexible enough to accommodate part numbers somewhere else.

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Charlie