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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Does the net think...?  (plus comments on rn)
Message-ID: <430@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:18:33 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.430
Posted: Thu Nov  8 00:18:33 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 01:22:47 EST
References: <388@west44.UUCP> <410@deepthot.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <410@deepthot.UUCP> julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) writes:
|| No it isn't looney. I periodically have to go through  .newsrc  and
|| change "!"s into ":"s so I can look at things.  though actually I
|| almost invariably quickly unsubscribe again, and the software here
|| searches for the next available article in such a ng the long way.

If you use "rn", it becomes easy to resubscribe without having
to edit your .newsrc by hand - just type 'g' followed by the
newsgroup you want.

||   The alternative of using -x and a specific -n in the readnews
|| command has the disadvantage of not remembering what you do read in
|| that session, nor take account of any articles still on disk that you
|| have read already.  btw, what is "-x" useful for apart from this?

I use it to reread an article I know I've seen before, which is recent
(with the -r flag as well for reverse order). Also, if I want to transmit
and article to another site (e.g., an important locally-generated
article that I'd like to send straight to ihnp4), I use "readnews -xrn"
and use readnews' X command.

Incidentally, rn has some great functionality that many users
may not have explored. Suppose you want to go back and reread
all articles posted recently by Martillo in net.religion.jewish.
You simply type "?Martillo?hrm" and rn will mark as unread (m)
all previously-read (r) articles with "Martillo" anywhere in
the header (h). (Actually, this also gives you articles whose
subject lines refer to Martillo, but you get the idea.) And
if you want to go back and reread all postings on Batman in
net.misc, you type "?Batman?rm".

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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