[Info-vax] What's up with DECUS HTNotes ?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mailman.14.1621292599.3831.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
<kemain.nospam at gmail.com> writes: 

> Re: features - Caveat ... I am not a big user of newsgroup readers, but in
> terms of features, the one thing of Notes that I always liked was the "Next
> Unseen" feature. 

Life is WAY too short to use a newsreader which does not have that 
feature.  It is one of the main things which distinguishes actually 
reading usenet productively from just pointing a browser at some text 
file.  :-)

I'm using NEWSRDER on VMS, right now on a VT320 but often in a DECterm.  
It has an interface similar to VMS MAIL.  Using that newsreader has 
literally given me several years more of life due to time not wasted.

> This is where you connect to a conference and by hitting
> Next Unseen, you are only presented with the notes from the many threads in
> the conference that you have not read yet. 

Right, and one reason why typical forum software is decades behind what 
was available on the VAX a quarter of a century ago.

Add to that the ability to mark an entire thread as seen, to crosspost 
where there is only one actual article (so marked as seen in all groups 
if read or marked as such in one), to pop the user into their favourite 
editor, and so on.