seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal) (07/07/89)
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > Actually, from the looks of it, nn might end up deserving its own > newsgroup... Let not rush into it. Right now the mailing list is short, and carries less traffic that this group does about nn. If the traffic on the list increases a lot, or these newsgroups gets flooded with articles about nn, then maybe. I wouldn't be surprised the volume would decreased when the current deficiencies have been eliminated. Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk).
jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) (07/07/89)
I personally love nn's "all articles at a glance" user interface. I read my news with nn by positioning my fingers (starting with my right index) on the ",./" keys. I hit "," and "/" to move through each article, letting the cursor guide my eyes to the subject line. When I see a thread which interests me, I hit "." with my middle finger (of course, to change pages, I use the spacebar). I can zoom through a newsgroup very fast this way, reading only articles of interest to me. A lot of people don't like nn's way of disposing of articles, mainly its throwing out of unread articles which have been "skipped". I don't really like this either... Then again, rn's persistance in keeping all unread articles unread sometimes really bothers me (I often use the "c" command in rn). If a key is added to skip a newsgroup w/o marking all articles read, I believe the problem will be solved. In fact, I would like this better. Most the time time I WANT to get rid of articles. I'd rather have to hit a specific key to "save" them. I think Kim did a wonderful job so far.. Of course there are bugs (is there such a thing as a "bug free" program?), but these will eventually be fixed, unless Kim gets tired of hearing compaints, and throws in the towel :-). I personally would quickly grow tired of hearing flames/complaints about a program I wrote for the public, for free. Bug reports are fine. Whining/flaming/complaining wont help anything. (BTW, this paragraph isn't directed at any specific person. I'm always suprised to see complaint articles on the net, and it seems to be pretty widespread). Owell.. that's my $.02... Jim -- James S. Burwell jimb@faatcrl.UUCP Standard-disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the above article are mine, and only mine, in fact, I invented them, and they are mine. :-) They are NOT to be interpreted at opinions of my employer.