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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Does NNTP NEWS support Reply and Forward now?
Message-ID: <1947@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 22 Feb 89 14:43:15 GMT
References: <50112@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1422@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1422@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@watson.UUCP (Stan Barber) writes:
>In article <50112@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu writes:
>>I have been using NNTP NEWS to access USENET newsgroups. What I don't like 
>>is its lack of ability to reply to the author and to forward an article.

>Typically, the "reply" function is supported by the news reader you use.
>Remote RN (rrn) supports this. I believe that postnews/vnews/readnews
>does, too.
>
>Which news reader do you use?

If I'm not entirely mistaken, the confusion here has it's root in a simple
nntp-based news reader for VMS posted to comp.os.vms a while back. It did
indeed lack reply and forward (whatever that is) capabilities, and was called
- that's right - 'NEWS'. I don't have access to the source right now, but can
dig it out if there is interest. Anyway, I seem to remember that the author's
description implied that he didn't intend to support it in any "official"
manner, i.e. I doubt that there are updated versions available.

The reason I know this is (of course) that when the local VMSites installed it,
I got similar questions about why "NNTP" did this or that... It is still in
daily use here, as far as I know.

Regards
--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se