Asri-unix.152 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!mclure Mon Nov 30 17:15:13 1981 many small lists I like the idea of many lists dealing with specific subjects, but I don't think the current netnews program is well suited to handling this. It should operate in reverse to how it does now. By this I mean that there would be a command to show you all the lists your site subscribes to and then a mechanism whereby you could subscribe. Now, you get everything when you run netnews for the first time, and it takes forever to plow through it all. Also, I think that it should be handled more like messge sequences in MM and HERMES on TOPS-20/TENEX, where a group of messages are available, upon which you can perform numerous operations (the mail program is not a terribly good attempt at this). Also, netnews should act like a normal message program, showing headers and so forth. The current way, forking up some random Berkeley program on it, is dubious at best. In other words, people should not have to trim infinity to a few lists. Rather, they should get nothing (other than net.general and net.news perhaps) and be required to add themselves to any lists they want to be on. This would avoid the problem of people being plagued whenever new lists are added and having to plow through it all. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.