harlanp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Peter Harlan) (10/28/89)
>>The big problem as I see it with the multiple postings of the White >>Knight announcement (and many other postings for that matter) is the >>poor news software. There is no easy way to read threads of msgs, no >>way to know that someone has replied 10 times already to a msg you are >>replying to. You can list the msg subjects, but how many of us do that? > >I dont know about Norm's version of rn, but all the ones that I have >used have the ability to follow threads by typing ^N (control-n) instead >of just n. ^N then becomes the default, so hitting the space bar is >enough to follow a thread - very easy, and I use it all the time. I know this is comp.sys.mac, but this problem is easily solved, at least with 'rn'. First, you use ^N, as mentioned above. Then, when you see an article you want to reply to, you hit 'm'. This marks the articl as 'unread'. Then you continue to cycle through the thread, and when you get back to the article you want to reply to you reply to it having seen all the other replies. I just learned this myself a week ago, through a similarly out-of-place posting, and it completely solves an otherwise bothersome and sometimes embarassing problem. Peter Harlan Indiana Univerisity <harlanp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> This advice is in the public domain.