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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Table of contents for news
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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 10:58:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 10:58:05 1984
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>Only one other person mentioned this in the 200+ articles I read in the last
>few days (sorry, I forgot who) -- is there anyway to get the news reading
>software (readnews, vnews, etc.) to display a "Table of Contents" based on
>the Subject Line or Keywords Line of, for example, a screenful of articles.
>At that point, the user would be able to decide which articles they do not
>want to read.  Then the software would take that info and update the .newsrc
>file to reflect the wishes of the user.

I believe there is already a package that does this in the emacs editor.
Very nice, but it takes a little while to run (understatement,
understatement...), and takes up quite a bit of disk space.  Still, if you
use emacs, you might like to try that.

			"This friendly reminder is also offered in Braille..."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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