blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) (12/03/87)
In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: [Some sugestions I agree with. He has several good ideas that I edited out because I didn't have anything to add.] >Instead of putting in such a negative feature, it would be better to >work toward making it easier to for people to postpone their >followups. >Doubtless some news reader already has this feature, but >unless a feature is put in most of the news readers, it will tend to >miss alot of people. The biggest thing preventing delayed followups >is the annoyance of tracking down the messages you want to follow up >to. I use the M feature of rn for this. Cross-posted articles are the main problem with this tecnique. >Or a feature that lets you stop in mid-reply and continue the reply >later I do this by writing the reply I am editing to a file and abort, then later using Pnews including the saved reply and edit out the extra set of headers. -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson blarson@skat.usc.edu Prime mailing list (requests): info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu
webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) (12/11/87)
In article <5499@oberon.USC.EDU>, blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes: > In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes: > .... > I use the M feature of rn for this. Cross-posted articles are the > main problem with this tecnique. Your site expiring the article will also take some of the usefulness out of the Mark. > >Or a feature that lets you stop in mid-reply and continue the reply > >later > > I do this by writing the reply I am editing to a file and abort, then > later using Pnews including the saved reply and edit out the extra set > of headers. There is no question that with a little understanding of the system, a person can do whatever they want. Even raw inews works fairly well as a news posting system (I regularly use it directly for local announcements). For that matter, it is rather easy to cons up a nice customized news reader using awk and shell scripts if you are a programmer. However, the news software encourages a class of readers/posters who have only a marginal understanding of any software (be it unix, their editor, their mail program, or the news software itself). For them, I am afraid your usages of rn and Pnews are just not a solution. --- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)