wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/26/85)
I've been using "rn" instead of readnews for the past few months and find it pretty good and I think I prefer it to readnews. Looking at the "help" info and the manual, though, I haven't found answers to these points (doesn't mean it isn't there, just that I haven't found it :-): 1) How do I get rn to automatically skip over duplicate postings in subsequent newsgroups? When the same item is posted to several newsgroups, readnews will remember if you read it already within that same execution of the process, and only show it to you once. It seems that rn will always show you each copy. This seems a step backward, so I am assuming that I just haven't figured out how to get it to do this. 2) Is there a way to get rn to look at the Newsgroups: field the way it now looks at the Subject: field? You can use "k" to kill or mark as read articles with a certain subject. How about getting it to mark as read anything that was also posted to a given newsgroup? For example, let's say I get into net.flame with 400 unread articles, having finally caught up on groups of more interest to me. I know I have already seen everything that was also posted to "net.legal", say, using the "Personal Defense" discussion as an example. However, if I just "k" everything that has "Personal Defense" in the Subject: field, I will also wipe out those articles that were sent to "net.flame" ONLY (yes, some people DO do the right thing and restrict the number of newsgroups!) and I don't want to do that -- what would be better in this case would be to tell rn to mark as read any posting that was sent to "net.legal" that it finds here in net.flame. Can I do this? (I wouldn't want to use a facility that just scans all the articles' text for the string "net.legal", because I have no reason to kill an article which MENTIONS the newsgroup "net.legal"; I would want it to only look at the "Newsgroups:" field in this search.) As I said, I think these facilities are there -- I just haven't figured out how to utilize them. Regards, Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA