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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Finding a needle in a haystack (was: future public nets)
Summary: RTFM!
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Date: 31 Dec 88 01:42:35 GMT
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In article <420@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> freedman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Daniel Freedman) writes:
>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.

Try ^N in rn.  If you don't have rn as your reader, get it for this func-
tionality alone.  There's a switch which, if set, will change the default
end-of-article action from n to ^N, which is vastly more useful.

>2) easily apply the 'n' function to not only the current article, but also
>   to all followups to it.

Try k in rn.  Kills all articles with same subject.

>Dan Freedman

Lotsa neat stuff in rn, huh?

Rob Jellinghaus                | At the tone, the time will be...
jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU |        later than you think?
ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET |        too late?
{everyone}!decvax!yale!robertj |        Miller time?