From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: bnews version X wishlist
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.900
Posted: Thu Aug 12 20:37:27 1982
Received: Sun Aug 15 02:51:04 1982


Well, you can sort of do that in B news-- it's always been possible to
give an explicit article number to the [ynq] prompt, if it's in the same
newsgroup.  It does not "forget" that you read the articles in between,
however, as the next (after you see the specifically requested one)
article will be the current one.  Specifying the article number changes
the location of '-' also.  One can "permanently forget" having seen an
article via the erase ('e') cmd, then '+'.

However, there is a bug in the current B news which prevents you from
explicitly specifying (via its number or '-') an article which has
multiple newsgroups.  I'm sure it will be fixed in the next release.
-Jay Lepreau