Subject: Pine as a newsreader

From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 11:35:26 GMT

Now that we have a new-server whose response is fast enough to make the 
experiments bearable, I have been trying out PINE (PC and unix) as a 
newsreader. Compared to my standard newsreaders (trumpet on the PC and rn 
on unix) I far prefer the user interface, with one exception:

both the others skip newsgroups which have no new items; 
what I would like PINE to do ideally would be to skip to next with some 
new items; if this is hard, I would like it to prompt in the info line, 
something like 'no new items in newsgroup; move to next (a.b.c)? (n/y) [y]'

My other problem is just like the multiple aaddress books problem - I 
wind up with .newsrc on unix and NEWSRC on the PC out of step, and have 
to remember to ftp the across - can we have remote access to the unix 
.newsrc from the PC, please (sometime)
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 21:20:04 -0800 (PST)

Barry,
Both of your suggestions are definitely planned.

-teg

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 14:29:25 -0800 (PST)

Barry,
Mark reminded me that if your news database is on a machine where you 
have a home directory, you can keep your .newsrc on that machine, and use 
IMAP to access news from anywhere, without having to worry about multiple 
copies of .newsrc being out of sync.

To access news via IMAP, just take the "/nntp" out of the news collection
specification. 

Later on we will have true location independence for all the Pine 
auxiliary files, including address books and .newsrc files.

-teg