🚀 go-pugleaf

Dave Griffiths writes
>In article <1992Apr13.015452.12324@talon.ucs.orst.edu>  
mcgredo@bluto.ie.orst.edu writes:
>>
>>NG can be annoying at times, but it's still easier to deal with than rn or  
>>other text-based news utilities. 
>
>Sorry, can't resist! Why *do* people rave about NG? Is it just because
>it has a NeXTStep interface? 

When I use a text-based news reader I get the feeling that operating a tool  
to read news, instead of just reading news.  I can just feel those  
biological computrons being siphoned off to figuring out how to run the news  
reader instead of being used to help do the task at hand.  It operates in  
the usual NeXTstep way, so I don't have to think about new commands or  
learning a new way to do things.

I find that I can filter many noise posts out by just scanning the titles  
instead of relying on killfiles or thread pruning; I remained blissfully  
ignorant of most of the recent flamewars (a depressingly common feature in  
the next.* groups of late).  I find I can go down to safely reading 20% or  
less of many groups, particularly in the noise-intensive ones.  Conversely,  
I can pick up threads when I see that someone who generally posseses a clue  
jumps into a thread in mid-stream, since I have the poster's names displayed  
next to the article titles.  Sort of a reverse kill file.

Wish NG would eliminate x-posts after reading the first one, though.

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