cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert) (09/29/88)
The point is: *every* small improvement in the ease of reading news is immensely valuable, particularly to professional readers like me. My time costs about $400 an hour and it takes at least half an hour per day just to keep up with the few technical newsgroups that I read. That's why I use "rn" instead of "readnews": the manipulation is so much more powerful. Having to hit 'n' 20 times to get past a large source, or compose a suitable kill pattern (prone to mistyping), is far more costly than hitting 'k' once. So I add my voice to the appeal for homogeneous "Subject" lines. The header format is quite flexible enough to accommodate part numbers somewhere else. ---------------- Charlie