Subject: Re: comp.mail.pine newsgroup & ftp site ??? (fwd)

From: Henry Yung-Heng Kuo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 09:31:29 -0800 (PST)

Hi there! 

It might be a stupid question.  How can I use pine to connect 
newsgroup and ftp sites?

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 11:59:02 -0800 (PST)

> It might be a stupid question.  How can I use pine to connect 

Henry,
Re using Pine to read news: Here is the applicable line from my .pinerc 
file.  Substitute the name of your own news host...

  news-collections=News *{news.u.washington.edu/nntp}[]

Note that this assumes you have a preexisting .newsrc file on the machine 
where you are running Pine.  Pine does not yet have support for posting 
to newsgroups, nor for subscribing/unsubscribing.

If your .newsrc lives on the same machine as the news database, and that 
machine runs and IMAPd, then you can omit the /nntp and use IMAP to access
news.

Re FTP sites: In the future we will be announcing an IMAPd that, if run on
an anonymous FTP server, will allow Pine users to have convenient access
to all the files in that FTP archive (not just the mailboxes in it), but
this is not ready yet. 

-teg