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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
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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.
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