Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!gistdev!dlp From: dlp@gistdev.UUCP (Dirk Pellett) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d Message-ID: <481@gistdev.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 21:36:54 GMT References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP> <377@texas.dk> <5563@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 18 peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <377@texas.dk>, storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> Since nn automatically splits all digests into separate articles and >> transparently handles these undigested articles as normal articles, >> how do you suggest to use .newsrc to mark *part of a digest* as unread?? >I suggest that it probably shouldn't do that. If the editor of the digest >wanted it to come out as seperate articles they would have published it that >way. 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. -- * * * * * * * * Dirk Pellett uunet!gistdev!dlp