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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <14544@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 22:59:23 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP> <377@texas.dk> <5563@ficc.uu.net> <481@gistdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In article <481@gistdev.UUCP> dlp@gistdev.UUCP (Dirk Pellett) writes:
>Until I started using NN, I always skipped over all digests, because I
>didn't have the time to wade through the 95% garbage to get to the 5%
>I wanted to read.  Who should control the way I spend my time: the
>editor of the digest, or me?  NN properly gives _me_ complete control.

Rn gives you all the control you need.  The  and  keys
make moving around standard format digests easy, and for nonstandard
ones it's the work of a moment to && map a key to pipe an article
into less(1) where you have fine control.  NN is OK for those who are
into that sort of thing I guess, but it didn't invent digest control.
(And auto-splitting digests isn't what I call "control" anyway, more
like "giving up.")
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