Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Is it OK/safe to put an entire news article in the subject... Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1oqdnf9Iu-cmEFTPnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@earthlink.com> <110120142310229365%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2014011115124598603-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1389628090 18507 166.84.1.5 (13 Jan 2014 15:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:54701 Barry Margolin writes: > That's one of the nice things about using a GUI newsreader instead of a > text-mode reader. MT-NW puts the subject line in the window title, and I > suspect most others do similarly. > > I remember when I used to use trn to read news 20 years ago. I'm not > going back. trn and nn are no longer being maintained - -rwxr-xr-x 14 news news 269347 Nov 20 2006 /usr/local/bin/nn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 237568 Jan 17 2000 /usr/local/bin/trn So... Although I think it's rude to suggest anyone change newsreaders, the age of these means they are not without some problems now. nn in particular has trouble with string lengths. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number