Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!rna!dan From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: rn vs notesfiles Message-ID: <305@rna.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 02:08:56 EDT Article-I.D.: rna.305 Posted: Wed Oct 24 02:08:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:26:58 EDT Organization: Rockefeller Neurobiology, NYC Lines: 24 Hi, I must be missing something about 'rn'. I have only played with it a bit - it was excellently packaged and is very nicely tuned visually - but it so far seems still like a souped up vnews which seems like a visual readnews. The notesfile interface, on the other hand, seems much more optimal (at least I prefer it) where articles are grouped by topic or discussion and you are presented a menu within each newsgroup/notesfiles of the discussions/subjects of each article. Now, I would like to ditch notesfiles because its integration with the news system is not perfect, but so far my use of an article-by-article interface such as that of readnews, vnews and rn makes me prefer notes. Any insights ? One can only devote so much(little) energy to playing with the news system. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o Dept. Neurobiology Rockefeller Univ. 1230 York Ave. NY, NY 10021 212-570-7671 ...cmcl2!rna!dan