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1.1     ! root        1: This is a list of features that probably would be nice but
        !             2: that nobody has had time to do.  4/25/83
        !             3: 
        !             4:        The user interface still needs work.  Something like notesfiles
        !             5:        would probably be good.  I can pictures a combined mail/news
        !             6:        interface with at least 3 windows - a menu (list of messages,
        !             7:        one line per message, ala Mail); the text of the current message
        !             8:        being read; and the text of the reply/followup you're composing.
        !             9:        Window 3 could overlay window 1.  Scrolling in these windows
        !            10:        seems important.  Discussions should be detected and grouped
        !            11:        together; it should be possible to shut off a discussion.
        !            12:        (The newsgroups will be sorted by topic and date in 2.11 - this
        !            13:        feature has recently been implemented but is far too new and buggy
        !            14:        to put in the distribution.)
        !            15: 
        !            16:        We need something for experimentation with moderated newsgroups.
        !            17:        The code now has some hooks to refuse to forward certain newsgroups.
        !            18:        They will be used for experimentation.  But this is woefully
        !            19:        incomplete.
        !            20: 
        !            21:        Something to make news more reliable is needed.  Some kind of
        !            22:        protocol where an article list is sent, and the receiving site
        !            23:        sends back the list of articles received and checksums; missing
        !            24:        or mangled articles are retransmitted.  An interactive protocol
        !            25:        ala SMTP would be a win, if it could be made efficient; a list
        !            26:        of availale article ID's is sent, the other system replies with
        !            27:        the names of those it wants.
        !            28: 
        !            29: In the less ambitious category...
        !            30: 
        !            31:        The 2nd break character in the tty driver should be set to space,
        !            32:        so the user can hit space in response to [ynq] or : and have a
        !            33:        more consistent user interface.
        !            34: 
        !            35:        Batching is experimental and probably needs more work.
        !            36: 
        !            37:        A facility to map newsgroup names is needed, e.g. a followup to
        !            38:        fa.telecom is converted to mail to [email protected].
        !            39:        Likewise, junk truncated newsgroup names (net.unix-wizar) should
        !            40:        just be expanded to their full name instead of junked.
        !            41:        This should fit in with moderation; posting to net.general generates
        !            42:        mail to the moderator.
        !            43: 
        !            44:        The file structure of 2.10 has been modified from 2.9.  Alas,
        !            45:        this has broken many of the nice utilities that were written
        !            46:        for 2.9.  These utilities need to be converted.  Even the
        !            47:        extra options to expire need to be converted.

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