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1.0 Introduction to nn
The underlying philosophy of nn is "no news is good news" and "nn" actually stands for "no news"! This is because hundreds of thousands of messages arrive in the over ten thousand newsgroups each day and nn makes it easy to efficiently read only articles and newsgroups you're interested in. If you are concerned that nn might be too brutal about killing articles, don't fear. You can always view all articles, including killed articles, using the "Go to all" (`G a') command described in section 6.1 below. You can also change nn's default kill behavior by using some of nn's nearly 200 variables. As of May 1995 the latest released version of nn is 6.4.18. The latest beta version is 6.5.0.b3. The beta is very stable so you might want to upgrade. For information about getting and installing nn see the nn FAQ -- details about finding the FAQ are given in section 1.3. Historical Note: nn is based on the tass newsreader.
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