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From: news@investor.UUCP ( Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vn verses vnews verses rn
Message-ID: <1026@investor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 15:40:33 GMT
References: <632@convex.UUCP> <386@polyof.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbp@invest.UUCP (Bob Peirce #74)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <386@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>In article <632@convex.UUCP>, tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>> >I have been reading news for about 6 months using vnews.  I tried
>> >rn but found it very yucky...
>> I don't understand what's "yucky" about rn.  I find its flexibility
>> highly desirable.  Could someone explain what's "yucky" about it?  
>
>We have been using 'vnews' for years here, and recently someone suggested
>we put "rn" up "because it is much better than vnews".  I put up "rn",
>and found it "annoying" in several respects:
>	BY DEFAULT: (which is what 90% of news users use)
>	"rn" (patchlevel 40) will:
>	_________________________
>	+ display the entire first page of news, which can be quite
>	  slow.  "vnews" only displays the header of the article, so you
>	  can quickly 'n' it away if you choose to.
>
I recently started using rn after using vnews for several years.  I think
I am at patchlevel 31, so this may not apply, but my version only displays
the header at 1200 baud and displays the first page at 19,200 baud.  I don't
know where the break point is.

What I like most about rn is "=".  My biggest complaint about vnews was
wading through each header to see if the subject was of any interest.  It
could take several hours to read news and some interesting groups never
did get read.  With rn I do the same job in 15-30 minutes by getting the
subject summary, junking what I don't want and reading the rest.  The
ability to follow subjects is also quite nice.

BTW, I am running an old version of vnews, so I don't know if recent
vesions may provide the same features I like in rn
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