Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Why the net didn't die, or perhaps why it did Message-ID: <1012@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 20:50:25 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.1012 Posted: Sat Jan 19 20:50:25 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 23:35:39 EST References: <216@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 I couldn't make it through the list of groups that I do read without the aid of a few of the features of "rn". In many groups, when I am first asked if I want to read a particular group, I type '=' which gets me a list of the Subject line for each pending article. Often, I can simply throw them all away with 'c'. All articles with the same subject as the current article (which is usually most of the followups) can be junked with 'k' or 'K'. In other cases, the "/regular expression/:j" method is necessary. I highly recommend these techniques. Now if only I knew how to tell in advance that an article was composed almost entirely of a reference to a previous article....