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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
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 20:50:25 1985
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Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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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....