Re: Threading and other functionality Was: Usenet vs BBS

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:40:14 +0100

In article <KcvcxkW2vrGK090yn@daina.bga.com>, mikus@bga.com (Mikus
Grinbergs) wrote:

> > This can be done but at present, AFAIK, Yarn does not support
> > exporting several (to be quoted) articles simultaneously.
>
> If one is willing to put in some "manual" work, the desired effect can
> be created *outside* of Yarn:
>
> - Yarn sorts my articles by subject. I review the thread message by
> message; when I see something pertinent, I use Yarn's 'S' command
> to append that message to a file I've called RRR.
>
> - On the last message, I use Yarn's 'F' (or 'R') command.
>
> - Once I am in my editor, I bring up RRR in another window. I then
> use editor commands to copy lines from RRR to the response message
> that I am composing.

Sorry about the long quote here but i could not leave out the juicy
parts. <g>

I do export to file and then read into the reply but I miss the quote
chars. Going through a file and placing quotes at every line is not my
idea of fun when there are tens of articles to follow-up or reply.

What I have done before is to follow-up or reply and then write to file.
At the last article I include the saved bits and have a "threaded"
follow-up or reply. Not pretty but works. Tries ones patience though.

James