Subject: Suggestion for Option re: newsgroups in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 14:10:10 GMT

I would like to suggest a new option be added to Pine to allow someone to 
select the option to automatically "delete" a message when the mailbox they
are reading is a newsgroup.  This would then automatically update their 
.newsrc file.  One would not have to remember to delete articles in order 
to add them to the "read" list.

To be compatible with current pine, the option should default to off, so
that people who want this feature would have to turn it on.

It might be worthwhile to do it this way: if someone upgrades a config 
file as a result of the automatic upgrade when their system changes to a 
new version of Pine, then it should leave the flag defaulted to off; new 
users who have no config file would default to on.  Either that, or 
inform upgrading users that the option will automatically be set to on and 
they should disable it if they do not want this feature, the way Pine 
informs them on the first time they use it during a month and asks if they 
want to move the current saved mail folder to the name of the previous month.