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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Interfacing netnews and mail softwar - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:21:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 01:21:57 1984
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Regarding the recent comments on the merits of notesfiles and readnews:

There *is* an alternative, and it will be generally available
soon. It's Larry Wall (ihnp4!sdcrdcf!lwall)'s "rn" news-reading
program. I'm running a beta-test version, and as far as I'm
concerned it's vastly better than readnews and has all of the
great features that notes users crow about. Specifically:
	- you can automatically follow discussions under one "Subject" header;
	- you can skip (either during one session or for all your
		sessions) any articles matching a given header string;
	- you can list all unread articles in a newsgroup, one line each,
		and mark them all as read with a single command if you like;
	- it's *fast*;
	- it uses single keystroke commands in cbreak mode.

That's just a few of the features of this gem. Larry has done an
excellent job of redesigning the user interface, and once it's
in final form I look forward to seeing it widely used on the net.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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