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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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