Talk:Rn (newsreader)

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Here is an example where capitalizing the title is silly. It is not at all commonplace to capitalise UNIX shell commands as then they won't work. --drj

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Yes, but if you don't capitalize it, you can't link to it. It's a software feature/bug. --LMS

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Yes I know, that's why I mentioned it. It's a bug in this case, IMO. I'm sure we can live with it. --drj

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Early versions of 'rn' accessed the Usenet news directly from the server it ran on.

This is not exactly a distinction. Every news reader accessed the spool directly before this new-fangled interweb thing got started. rn is notable because it was the first screen-oriented news reader, and its user interface is still a model today. readnews, the original news reader, was line-oriented. (I'm old enough to remember both.) There was also vn, which was also screen-oriented and roughly contemporaneous with rn, which had a clunkier (more gopher-like as I recall) user interface that's similar in concept to many modern mail clients. 18.24.0.120 07:24, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

OK, I've now rewritten the main article to clearly spell out what made rn important any what happened to it. 18.24.0.120 06:28, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)