Subject: Something about Pine is driving me sane!

From: Fred Cherry <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:05:24 -0700 (MST)

I have a problem here that is driving me sane. I am trying to configure the
pine program to read and post to newsgroups. I configured as follows:

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personal-name          = <No Value Set: using "Fred Cherry">
user-domain            = <No Value Set: using "usa.net">
smtp-server            = <No Value Set>
nntp-server            = <No Value Set: using news.usa.net>
inbox-path             = <No Value Set: using "inbox">
folder-collections     = <No Value Set: using mail/[]>
news-collections       = <No Value Set: using *{news.usa.net/nntp}[]>
default-fcc            = <No Value Set: using "sent-mail">
postponed-folder       = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs">
read-message-folder    = <No Value Set>
signature-file         = <No Value Set: using ".signature">
global-address-book    = <No Value Set>
address-book           = <No Value Set: using .addressbook>
feature-list           =

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Now, after doing that and leaving Pine, and then opening the Pine program
again, I get the following:

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Folder-collection <mail/[]>  ** Default for Saves **                     (Local)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
News-collection <<No Value Set: using>                                  (Remote)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                      [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]

? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr    - PrevPage    D Delete      R Rename
O OTHER CMDS V [Select]   N NextFldr  Spc NextPage    A Add

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Then, when I highlight "[ Select Here to See Expanded List ]" on the
bottom, it sez that the list is empty. So, then I try to add newsgroups.
But, no matter what newsgroup I try to add, it tells me: "Newsgroup doesn't
exist."

What am I doing wrong?

Fred Cherry