Subject: Bug in setting news-collection

From: Joe Brennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 11:14:15 EST

Setup
Configure
move to news-collections
Add any value
Change value to "" (two quote marks)
Delete value-- FAILS

You don't get the system defaults because "" is considered to be a
value meaning no news-collection (of course this is useful if you
don't want to read news with pine).

Some users here actually did this, intending to eliminate an
alternative setting they'd tried.

Workaround is to Change "" to anything and then Delete value.

Joseph Brennan     Academic Information Systems
                   Columbia University in the City of New York
                   [email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 09:22:42 -0800 (PST)

Our documentation is broken on this point...

In order to *turn off* a system-wide default (e.g. nntp-server, or
news-collection, or default-fcc), you need to specify the "empty value" or
"null string" in your personal pinerc. 

If you are editing the .pinerc directly, this is done using the pair 
of double quotes to denote a null string.

To do this via the setup/config screen: first delete any value currently 
set, then press ADD, immediately followed by RETURN.  It should say 
you've gotten the empty value.

(We know: Either the docs or the U.I. needs some help here.)

-teg