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From: unocc07@zeus.unl.edu (Dave Caplinger)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: reply-threads with normal Usenet News
Message-ID: <3556.251f5901@zeus.unl.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 17:09:53 GMT
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Concerning the discussion of "followup threads" (VAXNOTES vs NEWS), I
thought I would throw this in.  Anyone with access to a UNIX box might
want to get ahold of the sources to NN, and run it.

NN is a visual reader in the same spirit as VN, but NN sorts the subject
lines of articles together (by arrival date?), so all of a particular
reply-chain is grouped together on the screen.  NN (similarly to VN)
then lets you select the articles you want to read (kind of how MARK
in ANU NEWS /should/ work), and then read just those.  While you are
reading a reply chain, you can decide that this topic stinks, and kill
the whole subject, which will bring you to the next article in the
newsgroup that does not have the same subject (or RE: subject).

This isn't the most detailed explanation of NN, but I hope that you will
take a look at it if you have a chance.  I think that some of these
features would be /great/ to have in ANU NEWS, but I'm not holding my
breath; they're not trivial. :-)

-/ Dave Caplinger /---------------------------------------------------------
 Microcomputer Specialist,   Campus Computing,   Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha
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