Subject: 'Catch-up' function at pine

From: Andreas Reimann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:27:39 +0200

Hi there,

just a short question about the pine program:

Is there a possibility to 'catch up' (=mark all articles
of a newsgroup as read) a newsgroup?

If yes, I would be happy if someone could send me how to do
by email!!!

Thanks,
Andy

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:00:48 -0700

> If yes, I would be happy if someone could send me how to do

	Enable the news-approximates-new-status option in Setup/Config. If
this is enabled, pine assumes that all news articles before the last one
that you deleted have already been read. So, all you have to do is delete
the last message that you read (doesn't actually delete --- just marks it
as deleted) and when you return to read news the next day, it will start
at the first article that you haven't read. I haven't bothered to confirm
this, but I think that if you delete the very last article in a newsgroup,
it doesn't work. I usually delete the second to the last article and make
sure that the last article is unread. 

				Ian