Subject: Re: How do I access USENET newsgroups using pine 3.91?

From: Jago <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:06:27 -0400

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Bun Chiu wrote:

> The subject says it all. Please walk me through the configuration procedure. Your 
> help is highly appreciated.
> 
> Bun

To add another note, see if your admin is willing to get Pine 3.93.  It 
has some nice new features.

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From: Jago <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:05:40 -0400

> help is highly appreciated.

For hypothetical reasons, let's say you want to use news.somewhere.edu as 
your news server.  In setup/config, you'd set the following items to 
these values:

nntp-server      = news.somewhere.com
news-collections = *{news.somewhere.com/nntp}[]

Check with your system admin to see what news server you should use.  
Also refer to the online help in Pine on those items.  Hope this helps!

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:05:47 +0100 (BST)

In actual fact you need only set the "nntp-server" variable; you do not
need to set the "news-collections" variable.  From the built-in help on
the "news-server" variable:

| When you define an NNTP server here, Pine implicitly defines a news
| collection for you, assuming that server as the news server and assuming
| that you will use the NNTP protocol and a local newsrc configuration
| file for reading news. 

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Bun Chiu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:46:30 -0400

Bun

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Baetzner)
Date: 26 Apr 1996 11:21:26 GMT

Distribution: 

I came in late.  What is the procedure for accessing newsgroups from 
Pine?  thanks.  steve