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Re: What newsreaders are there out there?

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From: Ken Seefried iii
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 12:39
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In article <247@ascom.UUCP> rene@ascom.UUCP (Rene Bach) writes:
>
>My suggestion would be that the result of the = command gets put into a mouse
>sensitive window where I then click the messages I want to read.  Can the emacs
>based version do that ?
>

Hmmm...thats a neet idea...

>
>Another useful facility would be to be able to bring to the attention of
>colleagues some interesting messages.  The easiest, but most space consuming
>would be to add a forward command to RN and forward the whole message to the
>person, using the mailer.  Are more clever mechanisms possible ?
>

Well....I don't know what news reader you use, but in 'rn' forwarding
is quite easy.

After reading the article, simply type:

	|mail user@site.domain

This will pipe the message to mail and send it to a colleague.

	...ken seefried iii
	   ken@gatech.edu
	ken seefried iii	...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, 
	ken@gatech.edu		masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax,
	                      ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken
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References: <698@biar.UUCP> <247@ascom.UUCP>

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From: ken@capone.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: What newsreaders are there out there?
Keywords: news rn newsreaders software
Message-ID: <900@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 89 12:39:08 GMT
References: <698@biar.UUCP> <247@ascom.UUCP>
Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
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