Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!gwspc!cbcsta!n8emr!lwv From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...) Message-ID: <369@n8emr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 10:05:53 EST Article-I.D.: n8emr.369 Posted: Sat Dec 5 10:05:53 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 20:30:01 EST References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <1178@looking.UUCP> <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> <1691@epimass.EPI.COM> Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Organization: N8EMR's Ham BBS (HBBS), Columbus,Ohio Lines: 36 Xref: mnetor news.admin:1490 news.software.b:1022 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. -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 cbosgd!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) cbosgd!n8emr!lwv@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (BITNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.