Subject: Can I turn *off* news in pine?

From: [email-masked] (Neil Hoggarth)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 09:54:13 GMT

The system wide pine.conf file for the Pine 3.89 installation in our
department has the "news-collections" variable set so that users can
read news from an NNTP server in another department using Pine. However
I prefer to read new using a threaded news reader rather than Pine.
Unfortunately I can't stop pine from showing me the news collection.
This is particularly annoying because the NNTP server can be a bit
flakey at times an I like to run Pine with the "expanded-view-of-folders"
option turned on. The news can slow down the opening of the "FOLDER
LIST" screen considerably.

Can anyone suggest something for me to put in my pinerc file to turn off
news access? I tried 

	news-collections=""

which *almost* does what I want, but causes Pine to generate an error
message everytime it starts up :-

	Bad context, No '[' in context : ""

Anybody got a better solution? I can modify the pine.conf file if need
be (I'm the sysadmin :-)) but I don't want to mess up news access for
Pine users who want to continue using Pine for news.

Regards,

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Neil Hoggarth                    Computer Officer, Laboratory of Physiology
<[email-masked]>                                Oxford University, UK
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT)

Looks like you found a bug...  Thanks for the report!

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