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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...)
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 10:05:53 EST
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What I would like to see in rn (besides the bugs that I deal with and the other
neat features and the fact that I have not heard 'hide nor hair' :-) of
Larry Wall since his baby was born last spring) is two new features for
helping followup:

1. I would like something similar to = which shows only those items with the
same subject.   

1b. (So I forgot that I had more than 2) Have rn sort out articles which
are referenced into some sort of timeline so that IF there are multiple
related 'threads', we see them in a closer to posting sequence.

2. The ability to create a followup or reply, but have it pended until
the group has been finished.  Then the user would at that time get a last
chance to go thru the articles and decide whether to really post / mail
them or not.

2b. This would resolve one of the annoying features of rn that I see - if
I have a large kill file (which happens more and more often in some groups
;-0) and I post a message, I have to wait until all of the kills are attempted
on my posting before I get a chance to be presented with the original article
again for disposition.  And sometimes I get my article to dispose of first!
If all of my articles were pended, then I could , if I so wished, perform
a cleanup or global junking of my own postings.  I suppose I could do
that already in the kill file, but I just thought of that and I STILL have
to wait until the entire kill file is processed. - which of course could
lead me on into more proposed changes, but this is not the time or place -
a msg to larry wall, if I could find the address, would suffice for that.
Or perhaps to whoever is now keeper of the rn changes.

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