Subject: News in pine

From: Bruce Mahfood <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:39:22 -0400 (EDT)

How does one subscribe and unsubscribe in pine?  I have looked at the 
options available and have hit "?" to get the help screen.  The options 
and help seem very mail oriented and say nothing about news.  Even when 
you want to go to a group the option is called something like "go to
folder."  Please let me know if there is an option in my .pinerc that I 
am not activating or something...

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 18:00:17 -0700 (PDT)

Bruce,

We have a message-counting mechanism for the incoming-folder-collection
(which can include newsgroups) working in our experimental version, but we
are not really happy with it's performance.  This will be at most a special
command for the Pine 3.90 release.  We would like to have automatic counts,
but we need to improve the speed considerably first. 

As you have noticed, Pine 3.89 does not have support for subscription,
unsubscription, or posting news.  These *will* be in the Pine 3.90 release. 

Thanks for the requests!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Bruce Mahfood wrote:

> Sorry about my earlier message, but, after doing some more searching, I 
> found I had not set my news-collections= option in my .pinerc.
> 
> So now I am running with both news and mail.  That's great.  Only one 
> thing that could be a suggestion for pine 3.9.  If the listing of 
> newsgroups could be made such that I could see a count of how many unread 
> entries there were, I would feel a lot less anxious.  As it is, I 
> subscribe to so many newsgroups that, if I cannot see that info in front 
> of me, I will find myself reading every single group, not knowing whether 
> I needed to.  I really don't have the time, with my job, to be bouncing 
> around newsgroups.  Please consider this suggestion.  As a matter of 
> fact, what would be cool is a menu option that allows flipping back and 
> forth between a simple listing of newsgroups and a numbered listing.  
> That option could be controlled by a .pinerc option which would turn it 
> on or off, and by an option that, if this were switched on, would allow 
> you to select which mode was to be the default every time you first get in...
>