Subject: Pine as a newsreader

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 17:18:18 +0100 (BST)

We're happily using Pine as a newsreader (mostly 3.07, some 3.89). I'm
toying with the idea of setting up anonymous news access via Pine; how can
I do this so that the default folder colletion presented will be the
entire set of newsgroups in /usr/lib/news/active? 

Mike

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:49:14 -0700 (PDT)

Mike,

For pine 3.89, set 

	inbox-path=*{newsserver/anonymous}[]		(anonymous IMAP)
or	inbox-path=*[]					(local news)
or	inbox-path=*{newsserver/nntp}[]			(nntp)

where newsserver is the hostname of the news server.  You will need to 
generate the .newsrc file externally, perhaps a shell/perl script that 
builds the file then invokes Pine.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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