Subject: [Q] Multiple .newsrc files

From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 18:10:08 +0100

Pine can have be easily configured for multiple news servers, but
can it also be configured to make use of different .newsrc files
for distinct news collections?

-j

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:41:37 +0100 (BST)

As I remember/understand things...

*  Pine can read Usenet News in two ways: using NNTP or using IMAP.  The
former requires access to a machine running an NNTP server; the latter
access to a machine running an IMAP server configured to supply news
reading as well as mail access.

*  Posting a Usenet News article from Pine always uses NNTP (hence
requiring you have access to an NNTP server which allows you to post).

*  If you use NNTP to read Usenet News the .newsrc file (which keeps track
of which newsgroups you are interested in and which articles you have
read) resides on the machine you are running Pine on.  Pine currently only
supports one such file, which is used for all news collections (even if
they are on different news servers).

*  If you use IMAP to read Usenet News it is the responsibility of the
IMAP server to maintain the list of subscribed newsgroups and read
articles, typically by creating and updating a .newsrc file on the IMAP
server computer itself.

The corollaries of this are:

1.  If you use NNTP to access multiple (different) news servers things
will work, but each news collection (server) will list ALL the subscribed
groups in your (lcocal) .newsrc file.  Not all of these groups may
actually be present on the server.

2.  If you use IMAP to access multiple (different) news servers things
will work wonderfully.

Unfortunately not many places have their IMAP servers configured to allow
Usenet News reading...

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Jim Messina <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:29:35 -0500

> they are on different news servers).

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> Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>

Can anyone explain an inability to post to three newsgroups only(Pine 
3.91 unix) yet one can read these groups? This has only been a recent 
failure. The error message returned is:

[Posting news.....][*Error posting message:  ?3nau
[email-masked]... Address ] 

What might the rest of the error message be saying? (something about the 
address contains...?) The three groups that fail are(another user of the 
service corroborates the failure)

sci.aeronautics
sci.aeronautics.airliners
sci.aeronautics.simulation

Thanks

http://www.neosoft.com/~sky (Bluecoat Web links)

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From: ADAM Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:38:49 -0400 (EDT)

I got something like this 

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 2780 adam      33    0   24M   10M sleep   1:41  1.02%  0.92% pine
and for comparsion
  809 adam      34    0   10M 1376K sleep   1:12  0.20%  0.15% netscape
(3.0 beta 5)

..and quiting pine and restaring again..
 3442 adam      28    0 3456K 1920K sleep   0:00  1.79%  1.79% pine

Is this normal for pine3.95? I ask since I'm running pretty much out of
ram/processes lately.

I think it happens after I open an folder of 9'500 messages and then go
back to folder of size of 25 messages (ie, it get closed). But neverthelss
I think it did not occur before. 

-Adam