Subject: Pine and News

From: Bruce Mahfood <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 11:18:18 -0400 (EDT)

For some reason, when I first subscribed to this list, and when I 
compiled pine on my system and first started to play with it, I got the 
understanding that pine did News stuff.  Don't remember exactly what it 
was that gave me that impression, but I do remember that people have 
talked a bit about it.  I can't seem to find any feature in pine 3.89 
which points toward an ability to read and post news.  Please let me know 
if this is a future enhancement, or if there's something I'm totally 
overlooking...

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 08:49:15 -0700 (PDT)

Bruce,

Pine 3.89 has very limited *read-only* news support.  You can eneble this by
setting the "news-collections" variable in your .pinerc file to point to your
news server.  You will also need a .newsrc file generated by some other
newsreader... 

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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From: Pierre Roy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 11:42:59 -0400 (EDT)

> news server.  You will also need a .newsrc file generated by some other
Sorry to barge in but does Pine use the NNTP type of connection to read 
the news???

Thanks.
Pierre

> > if this is a future enhancement, or if there's something I'm totally 

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 17:50:10 -0700 (PDT)

Pierre,

Pine can use NNTP, IMAP, or local file access to read news.

--DLM