From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!pavel
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Notesfile - (nf)
Article-I.D.: cornell.3265
Posted: Tue Jun 29 21:34:02 1982
Received: Wed Jun 30 06:00:30 1982

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cornell!pavel    Jun 29 20:47:00 1982

Concerning the recent praise of the notesfiles system:
	1) Yes, putting it up is fairly simple, but I would have
	   appreciated an overview of the workings of the beast so
	   that I could make more knowledgable decisions on certain
	   of the local customisations.
	2) It appears that the nice feature of grouping responses under
	   the original doesn't work with news which is gotten from
	   the USENET.  I know that there's a References: field in the
	   version B news articles, so this shouldn't be too hard.
	   Is it the case that this really doesn't work, or have I
	   done something wrong?
	3) I think this is a really well done system which would work
	   better if everyone was using it.  There are obvious 
	   compromises that have been made in order to accommodate
	   netnews.
	4) The screen-oriented approach is clearly superior to the
	   odious 'msgs' interface of readnews.
	5) I think that this is worth your while to try out.  And if you
	   find out that a neighbor of yours is using it, I heartily
	   recommend that the two of you use the notesfiles method for
	   communicating and not to go through news unnecessarily.

	Pavel Curtis
	Cornell University