sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (02/13/90)
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: |You meantion more and more people switching over the NN. I know |this isn't the right forum for this question, but I need to ask |anyway. What features made you convert? I moved to nn after 4+ years of in-depth rn use. I like nn because one can very rapidly scan the list of subjects and select threads that are interesting. The thing I dislike most about rn, it's sequential nature, slows me down a great deal. Suppose there are 60 subject threads, and I will be reading three. We'll assume this is after any kill files have taken effect. My nn session might go like this: I see the first 20 or so threads on the first screen for this newsgroup. "Hmmm that one looks good." and I type its letter. -Space- I see page two and there's the other one. I type its letter. Page 3,4 and 5. None there. After a few spacebars I'm reading articles. Ok so I've quickly scanned 5 screens in addition to reading the articles. With rn, in addition to reading the articles, I gotta see 57 extra headers and type "k" to each one them. That wastes a lot of my time. What nn does best is help you to not read things you don't want. The slogan "No news is good news." is wll thought. Remember when you could read and keep up with all the newsgroups? Now there is so much stuff that nn saves me huge amounts of time by not reading it :-). I also think nn feels a lot faster than rn. It starts faster, and everything it does (at least on our system) seems to happen instantly. Remember how *wonderfully* fast rn was compared to readnews? That's how I think nn feels next to rn. Of course, everyone has to make their own choice. Readers might want to give nn a good test drive just to get exposure to some alternate software. Use whatever works best for you, and enjoy reading Usenet. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** "May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism *** in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there *** is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit." -MP