Subject: Help! Trouble reading News from Pine

From: Joseph Strout <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 15:14:48 -0800

Lately I've been having trouble reading News from Pine.  The UCSD support 
staff doesn't support Pine (they recommend rn or trn!), so I really hope 
you can give me some advice.

Often, when I first enter a newsgroup, everything is fine: all messages 
appear, and I can read them.  After a short while, though, any subsequent 
messages I attempt to read will be empty; they have a header but no 
message body.  It doesn't matter in what order I read them; all messages 
after a certain point in *time* are empty.  If I exit the group, open 
another, then come back to this one, I can read a few more messages.

Sometimes, even the headers are lost, but in this case it happens to all 
messages past a certain point in the list.  "[ No message text available ]" 
appears in the list in place of date, sender, and subject.  I think this 
happens as soon as I open the group, in contrast to what I described 
above.

Finally, sometimes when I'm reading, I get a "Newsgroup 'whatever' CLOSED 
DUE TO ACCESS ERROR" message.

It looks like Pine is expecting some link to the server to remain open, 
but in fact it's getting closed (and probably quite rudely).  Can anyone 
confirm or deny this?  And what can I do about it?  Does Pine have 
incompatibilities with certain news servers?  And (finally), are there 
public-access news servers somewhere on the Net to which I could point 
Pine, rather than our local news.ucsd.edu?

Many thanks for any help you can provide...
-- Joe Strout

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|    Joseph J. Strout           Department of Neuroscience, UCSD   |
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