From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: bnews version X wishlist 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2363
Posted: Wed Aug 11 11:43:12 1982
Received: Wed Aug 11 11:43:12 1982
References: yale-com.791 

	If someone is going to do something massive to b news to change
how it interprets whether a user has read an article or still needs to
see it in connection with Notes, then I would like to get my word in for
another feature that does not strike me as horribly difficult to put in
at this time.

	Given that I want to reference an article which I have already
read and know is 'about 5 articles back ' then I would like to be able
to type 'z5' and see readnews forget about the last 5 articles I have
read and show me the fifth last article I have read, to be followed by
the fourth last, and the third last.   Right now, if I have that problem
I have to get out of readnews, edit my .newsrc, and go back in.  If I
want an article I read last week which is probably 30 articles back, I
probably dont want to reread the 30 articles which will put me back to
today, so I usually note where I was when I decided that I wanted an
ealier article, and then, after rereading the wanted article, leave
news to re-edit my .newsrc.

	This ability to temporarily forget that one has read an article
I would find extremely useful -- is it built into Notes?  (Please
note -- anyone out there who has a marvellous hack to csh to let them
do this cant really help me since I dont *have* a csh, just a Bourne
shell)

	
					Laura Creighton
					decvax!utzoo!laura