Apurdue.153
net.news.b
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!cak
Fri Jan 15 14:38:26 1982
news complaint
One complaint leads to another department:
I was just reading an article; that is, I was trying to read an article.
It was short enough to fit on the screen without using my PAGER, but
it happened to be the last article in the newsgroup, and there was
another to follow it, so the banner combined with the next start message
was enough to blow the first few lines off the screen. Yuck!
So anyway, I tryed to get back, and mistakenly typed 'p' which got
me (0 lines) More? [ynq] at which point I typed -, and got a core dump.
By the way, not all terminals have only 24 lines; I commonly peruse
news on a 64 line terminal, and get aggravated at going into the
PAGER for a 25 line article that fits perfectly well onto the screen.
Oh, by the way, flame off. We just switched to B news, and I must
say I like the interface better. Another gripe (but not a flame)
is that - followed by another - gets me to the first article;
I know it's consistent but it's not what I expected.
chris
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