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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Postive vs Negative Features (was: Re: Novel new idea to stop...)
Message-ID: <1691@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 22:15:14 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.1691
Posted: Wed Dec  2 22:15:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 08:39:02 EST
References: <1173@looking.UUCP> <1178@looking.UUCP> <635@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: Larry Wall just went back in his DeLorean again and added this...
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In article <635@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>Instead of putting in such a negative feature, it would be better to
>work toward making it easier to for people to postpone their
>followups.  Doubtless some news reader already has this feature, but
>unless a feature is put in most of the news readers, it will tend to
>miss alot of people.

The most popular newsreader, "rn", already has this feature.  It's
the 'M' command.  This command marks a message as unread.  After you
complete reading the newsgroup, the 'M'ed messages return.  That's
what I use; any message I'm considering following up to I mark as
unread and get back to it later when I have time.
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