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