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Re: select earlier articles in reading mode?

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From: Cindy Tittle Moore
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:34
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In <1993Jan6.081619.25496@lth.se> kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:

>giles@promed.com.au (Giles Lean) writes:
>>Now and then I find an interesting response to an article and want
>>to go back to the original posting.  The 'b' command will do this
>>(eventually) if the article was on the selection menu; but not if
>>I read (or didn't read) the article some time last week.

>When you are reading the response, type "G<RET><RET><RET>"... This
>will bring you up a level to a menu which shows all articles of the
>same subject...

Which I use all the time and is absolutely wonderful, but do keep in
mind that if the article has expired, this still won't bring it up.
Nothing you can do about that, just don't be surprised if the original
article doesn't show up, but a number of responses to it do.

--Cindy
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From: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
Subject: Re: select earlier articles in reading mode?
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