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Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:

> Now will someone write an nnman backend that lets you browse a tree of
> manpages as if they were news?  That way at least the statement would be
> true.
> 
> (I'm at least half serious.)

Well -- manual pages aren't particularly message-like.  New manual
pages seldom appear, and it isn't really interesting to mark read
manual pages in any way, so I don't think an nnman backend would make
much sense.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."