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- INTRODUCTION TO NN
- ------------------
-
- RELEASE 6.4
-
-
- nn is a menu based (point and shoot) netnews reader with a complete
- set of features to satisfy both the expert and the novice user. Since
- its first release in Denmark in 1984 (!), in Europe in 1988, and the
- global release in June 1989, it has replaced rn and other well-known
- news readers at many sites.
-
- Some of the key features of nn are:
-
- * Menu-based article selection prior to reading the articles
- with the articles sorted according to subject & posting time!
-
- This significantly reduces the time spent on news reading.
- No keystorkes are wasted on articles you don't want to read, and
- only the articles selected on the menu will be read.
-
- * Release 6.4 uses standard .newsrc, and can leave individual
- articles unread!
-
- * Digests are automatically split and presented as ordinary articles!
- You can transparently save and respond to individual subarticles.
-
- * Full folder support: read, save, and delete individual articles.
-
- * Online help and manual.
-
- * Built-in unshar and patch functions.
-
- * Built-in uudecode function which will automatically unpack,
- concatenate, and decode multi-part postings.
-
- * Easy remapping of keys with advanced macro definition features.
-
- * Automatic kill & selection of articles based on subject or author.
-
- * User specified presentation sequence of news groups based on the
- news group hierarchy.
-
- * Whole classes of news groups can easily be unsubscribed
- permanently, e.g. talk.all and all.politics
-
- * Related groups can be merged and presented as a single group, e.g.
- comp.emancs and all gnu.emacs groups.
-
- * Blindingly fast 'search for subject'. On my Texas S1500 system,
- nn uses less than 20 seconds to find all articles on a specific
- subject among 64000 articles in all groups!
-
- * News collection and presentation is extremely fast, because nn
- uses its own database on top of the standard news system.
-
- * In a distributed environment, the database can be shared among all
- hosts on the network. Only one daemon is needed on the news server
- for all hosts. This works in a heterogenous environment as well.
-
- * NNTP is also supported (using a local database for speed).
-
- Because of the database, nn starts almost equally fast (in a few
- seconds), no matter whether you have 100 or 10000 unread articles!
- The database takes up some disk space, but dramatically improves speed
- and functionality. The amount of disk space consumed is approx. 1Mb
- per 10000 articles.
-