"<num> followups" display in status line ?

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2 total messages Started by Sven Guckes Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:29

#558

Author: Sven Guckes
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:29

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Is there a way to have a display for the number of (available/selected)
followups to the current article (in read mode) for the status line ?

I'd like to have such a display as I sometimes have to decide whether to
read on (i.e. read the followups) before I post/respond myself.

The way I usually find out about this is by hitting "Z" to stop reading
and look for possible followups myself and then hitting "Z" again to
continue reading.

As always I'd rather have the software do that for me.

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Re: "<num> followups" display in status line ?

#559

Author: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:19

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guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:

>I'd like to have such a display as I sometimes have to decide whether to
>read on (i.e. read the followups) before I post/respond myself.

For cases like this, hit your "l" key (lower case L) and continue
reading.  If there are followups, you'll read them.  If there are not,
you'll continue on to other subjects.  When you're done reading all
articles, you'll get the question, "Show leftover articles again?", and
when you answer affirmatively, you'll see the original article you were
looking at when you pressed "l".  You can do this several times.

I find it is very nice to read all the posted articles before following
up, because sometimes someone will followup to the article with a
different subject, so there is no need to answer it yourself.

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