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Assuming the use of rn as your usenet news reader:

> The features wanted are:  
> 
> 	Thread support -- Being able to follow a thread BOTH backwards
> 			  and forwards from ANY point.

use ^N,^P to move forward and backward through the same thread.

> 		       -- Begin able to save a complete thread into a
> 			  file from any point in the thread.

/pattern/modifiers:command{:command} is the command syntax so something like:
/SoftPC/:s softpc.file

This command finds all the articles with SoftPC in the subject and saves
them to the file softpc.file.

> 		       -- Being able to "FREEZE" a thread so that no
> 			  more notes can be posted to a certain topic.

use ^k which allows you to generate a kill file, which causes rn to skip
all articles of a given subject.  You would add a line to the kill file 
for the subject you want to skip such as:
/SoftPC/j

This junks (marks as read) all articles pertaining to SoftPC.

Typing h gives you help in rn.  This will show the above and other commands.

In article <9880001@hpdml93.HP.COM> troyb@hpdml93.HP.COM (Troy Bergstrand) writes:
:Assuming the use of rn as your usenet news reader:
:
:> The features wanted are:  
:> 
:> 	Thread support 

To me, a most useful aspect of thread support is to list 69 articles
in 7 threads as 7 threads (7 lines), not 69 lines as today's rn does.

One might say rn is "half threaded".

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I wrote a Notes-like newsreader that works with the standard netnews
software.  You can only read, you can't post, and it doesn't include nearly
as many features as real Notes does.  However, it works, and you can have
it for free if you want.

Rich Skrenta

skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu