Subject: PINE enhancement(s)

From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 16:24:43 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings:

  This is undoubtedly one of the most mail provoking lists I am on.  
Protocol on other lists state that questions are posted to the list, 
answers are replied to via E-Mail to the author (*not* the list) and then 
the person who posted the question posted a summary to the list.  Do you 
think this would be feasable for the PINE list?

<Please excuse my blatency after having been on the list for but a day or 
two ... does the load usually subside and this is just a high-traffic 
time or what?>

Enhancement:
 When in the "Index" mode ... would it be possible to jump to specific 
message numbers by simply typing the number rather than using the 
arrow-keys?  This is a slow method when our users are using the dial in 
lines at 2400 baud (like myself.)  I didn't notice an obvious way to do 
this in the .pinerc file.

Thanks,
-= Chris =-
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 15:02:30 -0700 (PDT)

Chris,

Pine-info tends to operate in more of a discussion mode than a gather and 
summarize mode.  Posting teh reply to the list can also reduce the number 
of duplicate responses you recieve as well.  The general volume of the 
pine-info list is getting pretty high.  There was some discussion about 
setting up a comp.mail.pine list a few weeks ago, but I have not been 
reading news.groups to see if anyone is following through...

You can jump by typing the number if you have enable-jump-shortcut on the
feature-list in your .pinerc file. 

Thanks for the comment and question!

--DLM

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From: Elmar Kurgpold <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 15:00:10 -0700 (PDT)

I'd say the load is high today, sometimes I don't get anything.

There is a feature called "enable-jump-shortcut" which will allow you to 
jump to a message by just typing the number (and pressing Enter).  Add 
this to your "feature-list=" line.

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From: "Richard C. Gaine" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 20:45:51 -0400 (EDT)

I feel that it is a good thing that the mail goes out to the list as well
as the original author.  This gives everyone a chance to read more about
pine and problems they may or may not have in the future.  I feel that the
list is funning just fine.

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From: Omi Chandiramani <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 21:32:51 -0400 (EDT)

> > think this would be feasable for the PINE list?

Actually no. Most of the time subscribers to this list are *discussing*
possible enhancements to pine, or *arguing* on optimum ways to use or
configure Pine on various platforms. So the original poster collecting a
summary of responses will not work since there will be no two way
discussion involved. 

Also, I wonder how many "original posters" would actually compile a 
collection of responses and repost to the list. I agree that a lot of us 
would, but then again maybe not. 

Omi Chandiramani, happy with the ^^, ^M, ^K sequence but could be happier.
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From: Pierre Roy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 22:08:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 5 Apr 1994, Richard C. Gaine wrote:

I feel hat pine should really have a newsgroup....
I will vote for that anytime!

Pierre

> list is funning just fine.

Yep keep it that way...
> > two ... does the load usually subside and this is just a high-traffic 

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From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 00:23:02 +0000

> feature-list in your .pinerc file. 

And even if you don't have enable-jump-shortcut in the features list, you
can just type 'j' followed by the number, rather than use the arrow keys.

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