Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: Re: Interfacing netnews and mail softwar - (nf) Message-ID: <5049@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:21:57 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.5049 Posted: Fri Aug 17 01:21:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 03:03:20 EDT References: <575@ucla-cs.UUCP> <50300002@convex.UUCP> <4225@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (& Sherman) Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 24 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 -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave