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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: notes availability/status from HP?
Message-ID: <5570186@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 21:09:29 GMT
References: <240032@grlab.UUCP>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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>Now, it would be really nice if...
>  -it could handle crosspostings

Hear, here!  It is especially annoying when people speak of "editing the
newsgroups line", etc. when we don't have that capability.  It would also
be nice to able to control the distribution a la `rn' (local, usa, continent,
world, etc).

>I've never seen rn or any other news readers, maybe I should check them
>out...

User interface wise, `rn' leaves a lot to be desired.  Notes and responses
appear in one continuos stream, rather than as basenote/responses.  The
default "sequencer" displays the notes in strict time order, rather than
showing all "responses" to one basenote first before moving on to the next.
There is no "index" page.

`rn' does give you a lot more options (cross-posting, distribution control,
"kill" files to cause the sequencer to ignore topics you don't care about,
etc), and does have a "search for next followup" command which gives a crude
and painfully (and I do mean painfully) slow imitation of the basenote/response
idea.

Of course, as an ex-Plato-ite, perhaps I am biased.