Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!zeus!unocc07 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 Lines: 21 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 mspecial@zeus.unl.edu ...!uunet!unocss!dent MSPECIAL@UNOMA1