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- From: bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen)
- Subject: Re: SPLIT THIS GROUP <-- Think other alternatives first
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.090607.1400@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Reply-To: bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- References: <12523@inews.intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 09:06:07 GMT
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-
- In a previous article, rcox@cad625.intel.edu (Richard Cox) says:
-
- (personal opinions omitted)
- For most of the pro- and cons of splitting this misc.forsale.computer
- group:
-
- >
- >Cons to splitting:
- >o misuse (cross-posting)
- >
- >Pros to splitting:
- >o easier to find articles specific to you
- >o people without sorting/kill files benefit quite a bit
- >o manageable # of articles per group
- >
- >Cons to not-splitting:
- >o misuse (poor subject lines)
- >o huge number of articles in 1 group
- >o difficult to find specific articles, esp. without sorting capability
- >
-
- The solution, either by splitting to the fullest details, or just leaving it
- as it has been, can never be fully satisfactory to everyone. Both sides
- have provided lots of arguments for splitting this group or not in recent
- months. The spiral seems to be tearing farther apart.
-
- Excuse me if I've repeated something some others have brought up. I
- strongly suggest:
- ***********************
- Implement a better command to read these Usenet News.
- ***********************
- For those who promote the splitting, their major complaint is that they
- cannot wait to read the subject line one by one, and this group has grown
- so fast that this way of scanning articles is very inefficient. This
- complaint has its point. I have a book
-
- NetNews Reference Manual by Anatole Olczak
- 2nd Ed., 1989, A System Publications, Inc., San Jose, CA
-
- which discusses in detail all the read/post/check Usenet News commands
- available in UNIX. I do not know how the Usenet News are processed in
- other systems, but from I can know in that book, all the commands:
-
- readnews, rn, vn, vnews
-
- present to the viewer only one article's subject line to you at one time.
- Although there are commands to display ALL UNREAD articles' topic lines,
- they are scrolled out of the screen very quickly. There should also be
- commands to let you see the topic lines for a range of articles, but it is
- often buried deep in the available command lists, and thus not easy to use.
-
- What we need is a new news-reading command which by default can display
- a range of article topics at your disposal. Each time a screenful of
- article subject lines are shown, and we can move up/down one screenful a time.
- For a 24-hr accumulation of new articles in this group, several screenful of
- display can cover them. In fact there is one in use, it's right here.
- Once I tapped into this environment, I never came back to the old horse of
- readnews/rn/vn/vnews. Well, seldom actually only when I cannot connect to
- this Freenet access.
-
- So, how about this
- --
-
- Gwochyuan Chen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bn050@cleveland.freenet.edu
- * Computers are your worst investment. They lose money faster than life
- insurance, and you don't even have to die to lose it. -- Russ Botton
-