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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
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 02:08:56 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:26:58 EDT
Organization: Rockefeller Neurobiology, NYC
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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