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From: eric@snark.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Finding a needle in a haystack (was: future public nets)
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Date: 31 Dec 88 01:11:16 GMT
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>Has anyone thought of allowing news readers to do the following things:
>
>1) view all new messages that have the same subject together, rather than
>   having to juggle many subjects in his head while reading news.
>
>2) easily apply the 'n' function to not only the current article, but also
>   to all followups to it.

Yes. 3.0 news supports what you really wanted when you were describing "chain
level" -- article-tree navigation primitives that understand `conversation
structure'. That is, the Followup-To relation and its inverse define a tree
structure that you want to traverse in depth-first order. This is the first
step towards full hypertext functionality for netnews.

And there is a `ud' unsubscribe from discussion command.


eric@snark.uu.net = eric%snark@uunet.uu.net     -->     Eric S. Raymond