Subject: Forwarding 17 messages at once

From: Clint Danbury <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 17:48:34 -0700

Does anyone know how I can mark messages in a useNet newsgroup (Yes, I
know about using the ":" key) and then forward those messages to an email
address elsewhere.

Specifically, I want to "G"o to comp.this.and.that.etc, then I want to
mark the 17 messages which look like they might be interesting, then I
want to press a magic keystroke sequence which sends them all to that
email address at once, and not have to do each one by hand.

I've got a telnet connection to a shell account, and that should explain
why I want to do all that gugla-dugla.

Thanks for any info.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:14:47 +0100 (BST)

The age-old question gets the age-old response... :-)

0.  Go to the Setup Configuration screen ("S" then "C" at Pine's Main
    Menu).  Make sure the "enable-aggregate-command-set" feature is
    selected.

1.  This then gives you some extra commands to use in the Index screens
    (both e-mail and Usenet News): Select (;), Apply (A) and Zoom (Z).
    In the Index select the messages you want to operate on by either
    using the ":" command to select the individually, or the ";" command
    to select them in batches if they share a common attribute (eg,
    sender, date, subject string)

2.  Give the Apply (A) command to apply a command to the entire set of
    selected messages.  This will take you to a menu of the commands you
    can apply: you want "F" (Forward).

Cheers,

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From: Hans Schleichert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:06:50 -0700

> know about using the ":" key) and then forward those messages to an email

Clint,

>From the message index, use the ';' (semicolon) command to mark all
messages you want to forward. This allows you to specify the messages by
number. Then, press a (apply operation to all marked messages) and f
(forward). This brings up the question 'forward as mime digest?' Press y
to include the forwarded messages as attachments, or n to include them as
plain text. Then, pine takes you to the message composer where you enter
the forward address, and select ctrl-X (send). If you want, you may return
to the index and press ; (select) a (unselect all) to remove the selection
marks.

       -  Hans
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From: Clint Danbury <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:48:15 -0700

Mike Brudenell and others offered some right-on-targetr advice about
forwarding a bunch of messages to a different site for off-line reading at
a latter date/time.

My thanks to all (seven plus!) folks who wrote me with instructions.  One
or two of them were easy enough to follow and see the thing work in real
life.

Cool.