jhh (10/21/82)
On the current version of readnews (2.9), the `-' operator does not always work. The problem occurs when an article is posted to two newsgroups, and you go back to the article. There is no effect, i.e. the header of the next article is reprinted. I'm not sure, but I also think if the next article has two newsgroups and you go back with - that you never see the next article. This may only happen when the two articles are in different newsgroups, as I only noticed the problem once. The reason that I noticed this is that I can never remember whether to use r- or -r, so I type `-'<return>`r'<return>. John Haller
jwp (10/22/82)
I have noticed the problem of '-' not working many times, though I've never bothered to work out the exact context. It's just infrequent enough (and confusing enough) to be annoying without really prompting me to do anything about it. John Pierce ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!jwp
trb (10/24/82)
I find it extremely annoying that readnews and Mail have such different interfaces. I am forever R'ing netnews or r'ing netnews or r-'ing Mail. I don't even KNOW when I am sending notes to the wrong people. It's disgusting. Don't tell me to use notesfiles. Gimme an interface to netnews that gives me the convenience of the notesfile interface but uses the same back-end as netnews. Having two totally different filing systems is stupid. (Please, don't send me an emacs-macro, I want code which I have a chance of being able to read, that is as portable as the rest of netnews.) Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491