Re: Extended newsgroup tags; another approach

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 02:44:14 CDT


greg andruk said:
>> And yet, unlike nicknames in email, I don't see any newsreaders that *do*
>> provide it. This makes me wonder whether it's as workable as the proponents
>> are suggesting.
> They are usually called bookmarks or favorites, and lots of people use them.

No they aren't, and no they don't. Bookmark/favourites (which I actually
only see in web servers - in newsreaders they tend to be "list of
subscribed groups") are not the same as some kind of global tag.

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