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From: lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Culling from subject line listings in rn.
Message-ID: <57303@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 21:27:09 GMT
References: <3136@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: Lum Johnson 
Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory
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In article <3136@yunexus.UUCP> tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis) writes:
>I'm in rn, and it says
>      "*** 666 unread articles in alt.sox -- read now? [ynq]"
>and let's say I'm going to pick out maybe 10 of those to read from
>the subject lines.  So I type "=" and it gives me the first 23
>subjects (I'm on a VT-100), let's say numbered from 50001 to 50023.
>Nothing interesting, so I press space for the next 23, and so on.
>Then, aha, a juicy title, say at 50234, and (this is important) I
>want to read it *now*.  So I read it.  Then what ???
>
>If I type "=" I'm back reading the earlier subject lines.  If I did
>(for example) 50001-50023j after the first screen of subjects that
>works but it's an ugly solution (it also starts up 50024).

There undoubtedly is a better way, but I am not aware of it.  However,
I will tell you what I do.  If I'm wading through hundreds of
articles, I use `=', page through the entire `=' display to the end,
noting all the articles I want to read, and finish up with:

	a1,a2,a3,...anM			;; mark them to return
	cy				;; catch up (yes)

Now I can go through the group again with only the interesting
articles left.  (`rn' will want to do that automatically if you
haven't yet read any articles in the newsgroup and there are
"returning articles".)  This is very fast, because the catch-up
is almost instanteous - only the unmarking of the returning articles
must be done individually.

If I can't spare the time for the huge `=' display, I use:

	a1,a2,a3,...anM			;; mark some to return
	b1-bnj				;; junk the range seen

and go through as many screens of `=' as my patience will allow, and
then quit and return to the newsgroup to actually read some of the
ones marked to return.  This is much slower, because junking a range
of articles marks each one as read individually.

Has anyone else found a better way than these?

Lum
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Lum Johnson      lum@cis.ohio-state.edu      lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
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