Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!convex!convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Better usenet arbitron in perl (nn support?) Keywords: perl, usenet, arbitron, nntp Message-ID: <5361@convex.convex.com> Date: 12 Feb 90 19:02:14 GMT References: <573@kla.UUCP> <14116@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 32 In article <14116@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: >Does arbitron support nn's datafile format yet? > >There is a huge base of nn users out there, including me. As more and more >people convert, the statistic are going to have more and more error >introduced. > >It's something you might want to think about. Johan Vromans's version of the arbitron knew about nn users. You meantion more and more people switching over the NN. I know this isn't the right forum for this question, but I need to ask anyway. What features made you convert? The speed of the local header cache? The subject selection menu? I once tried to convert from rn, and was not happy and went back. When I ask nn'ers why they like it, they say "it's easier than rn". When I ask them how you do some foo function in nn that I often perform in rn, they wonder why I would ever want to do that (like looking for the parent article according to the references line). I figure that since Larry Wall is sure to see this, he might see some responses to put away in his rn to-be-done list. Redirecting followups to a more appropriate newsgroup (if you can find one) would be welcome. --tom -- Tom Christiansen {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist Convex Computer Corporation tchrist@convex.COM "EMACS belongs in : Editor too big!"