Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave 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 Lines: 35 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 -- { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!dave