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From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: SKIP behavior vs. DEREGISTER behavior.  Inconsistent.
Message-ID: <3388.25ea558f@fps.mcw.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:25:19 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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A behavior question...   (V5.9C).

When "deregister"-ing from a newsgroup, the newsgroup
"pointer" moves up one group (which is what I would expect)

i.e.,
      newsg1                       newsg1
      newsg2                  -->  newsg2
 -->  newsg3                       newsg4
      newsg4                       newsg5

(above shows result of "deregister"ing from newsgroup 3.


However, when I "skip" (mark as read) a newsgroup, the pointer always
gets reset to the FIRST newsgroup on the list, which can be somewhat
annoying  (for many reasons, I may not want to read the first few
groups NOW..), which means every time I mark a group as read, I then
have to scroll down AGAIN to the next group I want to read.

WHy is the behavior of these two inconsistent?   I'd really like to
see the behavior of "skip" behave like "deregister".  ANy comments?
Geoff?

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