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Martin H. Eastburn
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Usenet services recommended?
Emacs guy - no way thinking that is crazy.
Powerful editor. And a news reader.
Loved the column cut and paste!
Martin
Steve Ackman wrote:
In , on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:51:24 -0400,
Maxwell Lol,
lid wrote:
Jim Wilkins writes:
Why are people so opposed to Google Groups?
No kill files
No way to only read new articles
it takes 10 times longer to read new articles.
I use a news reader that has keyboard accelerators:
n - next
space - more of the same article (if it's long)
k - killfile the subject
Because killfiles skip over subjects I don't read, I can read 2000
articles in just a few minutes, without touching the mouse once.
And that is reading EVERY new article, without reading any old articles.
Same here and agree 100%.
But...
- User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)
Most people would think that's just plain crazy!
;-)
I actually thought you were talking about slrn until
I hit 't' to toggle full headers.
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