Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:54:23 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: increasingly frustrated with trn Message-ID: <200105141554.f4EFsNP03504@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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This program has made a backwards leap in usability worthy of mjicrosoft! Why not take a program that people have been using for twenty years and change from a usable interface to a "any idiot can use it, but we're going to force you to use the idiot's interface." *grr* "most people . . . will want"? I don't know if this "most" is true, but it certainly isn't true of those who use *nix by preference. Once I set something, *especially* of the "don't use this new idiot's interface" variety, it should stay set. It should *not* assume that I will regress towards infancy or newbiehood between uses. Damnit, I was using its predecessors before "newbie" was generally used in this context. I've gone through the manpage twice, and still can't find a way to make that newsgroup selector go away and stay away--the information on supressing the list of groups with new messages is there, but not this. It seems that unless I put every single newsgroup in my .newsrc, it is going to ask me to subscribe to them every single time I start up, forcing me to backtick out. *arg* ok, rant over hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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