gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (04/04/88)
I use vnews as my news reader and I regularly get bit by the way it
will only show you an article in the first newsgroup on the Newsgroups:
line to which you subscribe.
Often when some interesting discussion cross-posts into a newsgroup I
read, or I see a pointer to a group I don't usually read, I will go there
and try to read the discussion. Vnews will only show me the parts that
aren't cross-posted to some group I subscribe to (whether or not I
actually get around to reading that newsgroup).
From what I hear of rn, it improves on this behaviour by noticing when
you have read a message and marking it as read in all newsgroups to which
it is posted. There are no other criteria for "should I show him this
message, which is the next one in the newsgroup" other than "has he seen
it already?". I like that. Let's not make it impossible in the new
netnews implementation.
[I don't use "rn" because it asks too many questions. I like giving commands
a lot more than answering questions.]
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