cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) (11/29/90)
When we first got our newsfeed up about 6 months ago, I snagged a copy of rn and brought it up for the users. Obviously, it was a vast improvement over the simple readers that came with the news distribution. After about a month or so, I was finally able to get a copy of nn. Once installed, our users quickly migrated to it and rn hasn't been executed since last August. I am getting pretty close to removing it from the file system. I loaded trn on for a little while, and notified the users of its existence, but after a trial period of a week or so, they had all gone back to nn again. Why? The answer I here most is because nn "feels better", or something more akin to "I waste less time in nn." I personally feel that the rn interface is clunky and obnoxious. It hides information from the user rather than letting him see it. It forces the user through long modes that he cannot quickly get out of. Trn did not really add any new functionality since I feel the threading feature was half-baked (not stupid or anything like that, but not completely there yet). Nn allows quick access to news. It compiles very nicely and has excellent support. (By compiles nicely I mean that we run a really mutant version of unix with all sorts of stuff that makes compiling other people's software a real pain in the butt. Nn required only very minor tweaking, once, to get it to compile and run.) Nn is fast and efficient. Oh well...I anxiously await the next great newsreader to appear to sway us from nn, but until then, no news is good news. -- Clay Luther, Postmaster cluther@supernet.haus.com Harris Adacom Corporation postmaster@supernet.haus.com Voice: 214/386-2356 MS 23, PO Box 809022, Dallas, Tx 75380-9022 Fax: 214/386-2159 Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.