Path: utzoo!yunexus!tony
From: tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Culling from subject line listings in rn.
Message-ID: <3136@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 19:46:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.3136
Reply-To: tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis)
Organization: York U. CS Dept.
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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).

Hoping there's a better way.  Also hoping I'm not going to bounce
the heel of my hand of my forehead in a vertical direction and
moan "of course, why didn't I think of that ... "