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From: barnett@grymopire.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Finding a needle in a haystack (was: future public nets)
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Date: 31 Dec 88 12:15:05 GMT
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>1) view all new messages that have the same subject together, rather than
>   having to juggle many subjects in his head while reading news.

The Gnews package to GNUemacs allows this. Gnews has most of the
features of rn plus a lot more.

You can select, on a per-newsgroup  basis
	Show index of articles when first entering
	Sort algorithm used above
	Format of display of the index
	Automatic article junking  based on author, topic, keywords, etc.
		using regular expressions, lisp, etc.
	Automatic Digest mode
	Automatic "rot13"

A simple sequence lets you edit the per-newsgroup "hook", used to
permanently kill topics, subjects, etc.

Since the environment is GNUemacs, you can skip around  several articles
while composing a response.

Since it is emacs, you can use spelling correctors etc. on articles
while composing them.

When replying by mail, the system can provide you with several
different addresses/paths, and you can select the one that has the
best chance of working.

I am using it now, and love it. It is sort-of the ultimate
programmable news reader. Be prepared to pay a small amount of CPU load,
and invest in learning GNUemacs Lisp.

--
	Bruce G. Barnett 	barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com
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