Subject: A Major Pine Time Problem!

From: Mike Rollins <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 06:55:20 -0400 (EDT)

I have just experienced yet another unhappy encounter 
with what is currently my biggest complaint, by far, against 
the Pine newsreader program.  Is there any easy way for me to 
abort the opening, and seemingly eternal sorting process, of a 
folder which I am not interested in viewing?  At least once a 
week, I find myself accidentally hitting return an extra time, 
when I hit return to show all of the newsgroups to which I am 
a subscriber.  What makes this really bad, is that the first 
newsgroup in my list is alt.2600.  As of just a few minutes 
ago, there were over fourteen hundred messages in that folder, 
here at IDS.  Fortunately this incident happened at Six-thirty 
on a Saturday morning.  Most of my encounters with this damned 
problem tend to happen when the system is at its busy slowest.  
There is nothing more annoying to me, than to sit waiting for 
several minutes, while I am forced watch the Pine newsreader 
program totally waste my time, with the seemingly endless 
sorting of a news folder that I am not at all interested in 
viewing.  How do I abort this problem in the future?  Please 
do let me know if there is an easy solution. 

Mike Rollins
[email-masked]
Speaking only for myself.

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From: "Brian P. Hampson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 09:11:05 -0700 (PDT)

> do let me know if there is an easy solution. 

Heh..try and see how painful it is when your specified NNTP server is 
down :(

B.

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From: Mike Rollins <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT)

> Heh..try and see how painful it is when your specified NNTP server is 

        I've been there!  Done that too!  
Had to hang two consecutive jobs in a row, 
just a couple of days ago.  One of them 
stayed online for several hours, before it 
was killed by the systems people.  

Mike Rollins
[email-masked]