Re: lynx-dev suggestion: newsreader

[David Woolley]

> 
> How about having links for Previous AND Later articles at the
> top and bottom of the pages?

1) Lynx is not primarily a newsreader - use something like trn;

2) there are more serious problems with the newsreader function, e.g.
   a recent, unverified, report suggests that it doesn't generate
   complete References: lines, which means that a Lynx posting 
   can break missing article recovery in threading readers, and
   prevent threads with an expired root article from being associated,
   even if subsequent postings are correct;

3) it already does in the index mode;

4) in the standard news: URL format (by message-ID) it is very expensive
   to do in thread order (dejanews will have a database with the threading
   information), and you have to arbitrarily choose one of the newsgroups
   to do it in article number order (backwards in thread order is
   relatively easy - it might already do this);

5) in article number mode, you would need a special link, because there 
   may be missing numbers, and that link may actually break when you
   follow it - in any case, article number order is not a good
   way to read a newsgroup - you really need a thread walk;

6) although Mosaic had an integrated newsreader, the big 2 now use a
   separate application to read news.