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On Monday, in article <830796776snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
     paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk "Paul Carpenter" wrote:

PC> Not knowing if these have already been documented and added to wishlist(s),
PC> a few niggles from the DIS package...
PC>
[snip]
PC> SNEWS One I have not yet got to the bottom of but is really irritating,
PC>   is *SOMETIMES* when sending an email reply to a post, you edit the
PC>   message then go to send (F7) and get a Share Violation. No direct
PC>   action will restore your masterpiece as any re-edit or retry
PC>   loses what you have typed :-(

I don't think that is an Snews problem: F7 is not an Snews keypress,
it's TED.  I have never had this problem, and I use a variety of
other editors, but then I don't use share.  All the same, I suggest
ditching TED, which is the likely sharing culprit; in any case there
are plenty of other good reasons for using a better editor.

PC> Finger/Viewer
PC>   Expand TAB characters so when doing finger status@gate.d.c.u it
PC>   is all readable!

great idea, even if it wld take all fun away ;-)

[snip other good ideas]
PC> PCELM   Listing of folders has * or x* for list all folders starting
PC>         with 'x'. When like me you have a lot of folders, it
PC>         would be nice to have

PC>           b+ - list all folders starting with 'b' onwards
PC>
PC>         Instead of going through all the letters of the alphabet
PC>          with an '*' after them.

Or better still, how about a scrollable pop-up menu of folders?
Shouldn't be hard to implement, but wld be much easier than having to
retype.

PC> SNEWS   When setting local/read for postings made that either
PC>   a) automatic kill file entry is made to avoid downloading the post
PC>        or
PC>   b) some form of HISTORY update is made to recognise it as a duplicate.

Good idea, but the killfile entry seems like overkill -- HISTORY is a
more logical place for this info.  More efficiently processed by KA9Q
too.

PC> I know (b) is more difficult as the true message id is
PC> only generated by the newsserver, as well as article number.

Technically, I guess that might be true if you are injecting articles
through mail2news.  But I have never known mail2news to alter a
msg-id: I did some experiments, and all it did was to reject articles
with invalid IDs and create them if not supplied for an otherwise
valid article.  I would happily rely on an Snews msg-id remaining
unchanged as long as you are posting to mail2news@demon

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