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philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" writes:
-On Monday, in article <830796776snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
-     paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk "Paul Carpenter" wrote:
[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.

I would agree and normally do majority of edits outside of DIS completely, to
avoid memory leaks, but it was one I noticed. Its just that every time I
upgrade I always forget to get round to ditching TED, as a new copy comes along.
normally I would use Q, but then that is me ;)

-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.

Just trying to suggest a quicker and easier method to incorporate as support
issues will become a problem of implementing them.

Like I would prefer PCelm to use same method as SNEWS of less menu options
as in r or R, but ask "do you want to quote message (Y/N)?", or default always
quote etc...

-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.

Just choice of easiest to implement.

-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

Only currently reliable method of doing this (from mail2news@n.d.c.u),
*I* have found was a kill file entry of From: *@pcserv.d.c.u

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