eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) (05/11/89)
In <5905@xyzzy.uucp> Alan Clegg wrote: > The features wanted are: > > Thread support -- Being able to follow a thread BOTH backwards > and forwards from ANY point. TMNN (aka 3.0) has this... > -- Begin able to save a complete thread into a > file from any point in the thread. > -- Being able to "FREEZE" a thread so that no > more notes can be posted to a certain topic. But not these. See my beta 7.6 release posting for how to get the sources. -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
clegg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Alan Clegg) (05/12/89)
Several people in our facility have expressed an interest in features that they have seen in the Notes software as opposed to the current version of News. Once before I asked about "notes" and I got back a lot of replies that were to the effect of "notes is dead, use netnews" and up to this point, I have had no problems with that. BUT, I need the added functionality that exists in notes and not in netnews. The features wanted are: Thread support -- Being able to follow a thread BOTH backwards and forwards from ANY point. -- Begin able to save a complete thread into a file from any point in the thread. -- Being able to "FREEZE" a thread so that no more notes can be posted to a certain topic. Will these features be available in TMNEWS or news 3.0? If so, where can I get these packages? If not, what is the latest version of NOTES, and where can I get it? We are currently running news 2.11.17 with nntp, and if necessary, we may run notes beside news if that is possible. Thanks, -abc
troyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Troy Bergstrand) (05/13/89)
Assuming the use of rn as your usenet news reader: > The features wanted are: > > Thread support -- Being able to follow a thread BOTH backwards > and forwards from ANY point. use ^N,^P to move forward and backward through the same thread. > -- Begin able to save a complete thread into a > file from any point in the thread. /pattern/modifiers:command{:command} is the command syntax so something like: /SoftPC/:s softpc.file This command finds all the articles with SoftPC in the subject and saves them to the file softpc.file. > -- Being able to "FREEZE" a thread so that no > more notes can be posted to a certain topic. use ^k which allows you to generate a kill file, which causes rn to skip all articles of a given subject. You would add a line to the kill file for the subject you want to skip such as: /SoftPC/j This junks (marks as read) all articles pertaining to SoftPC. Typing h gives you help in rn. This will show the above and other commands.
caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (05/15/89)
In article <9880001@hpdml93.HP.COM> troyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Troy Bergstrand) writes:
:Assuming the use of rn as your usenet news reader:
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:> The features wanted are:
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:> Thread support
To me, a most useful aspect of thread support is to list 69 articles
in 7 threads as 7 threads (7 lines), not 69 lines as today's rn does.
One might say rn is "half threaded".
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TeleGodzilla:621-3746 FAX:621-3735 CIS:70007,2304 Genie:CAFskrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) (05/20/89)
I wrote a Notes-like newsreader that works with the standard netnews software. You can only read, you can't post, and it doesn't include nearly as many features as real Notes does. However, it works, and you can have it for free if you want. Rich Skrenta skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu