NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/news/newusers/question/5534

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From: [e-mail] (Ian Staples)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Questions about rn and access to newsgroups (Re: Reasons for Anonymous posts)
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Date: 21 Dec 92 08:00:47 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (InterNet News) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David McIntyre) writes:
>>I believe he is asking the same question I have been trying to figure out
>>for a week or so, myself.  How does one start up a new topic of discussion?
>>F will follow-up, but how did the person who posed the original question
>>enter it?
>
>  Using rn/trn, the 'f' command asks if you are following up or starting a
>new thread.  That is the difference between 'f' and 'F'

I think you can use 'f' OR 'F' if you are at the end of a newsgroup and that
will effectively start a new thread too.  For example, clear the group if
you don't want to read it all, then go back to it (use '-' from the next
group, or 'g group.name' from the end of any group) then say 'y' to read it,
then 'f' or 'F' to start the new thread.  [Well... I've used that approach,
but I guess I've got no real evidence that my message went anywhere :)]

Cheers,  Ian S.

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