Subject: Re: How to get a list of the newsgroups?

From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 19:41:53 -0400

[email-masked] (Sven Guckes) on Thu, 22 Aug 96 wrote:

> Pine has an "email" feature.
> Send an "email" to [email-masked] !
> Ask him about those new newsgroups.
> And for a copy of the netiquette.

Oh really?  Thank you very much.

'tin' and most other newsreaders have a feature which will prompt  
you about the new newsgroups, and ask if you want to subscribe to  
them.

If pine has a way to do this, I haven't been able to find it.

Having to manually subscribe to newsgroups isn't exactly what I  
hope for in a newsreader....

TjL
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Timothy J. Luoma <[email-masked]>       http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
	My USENET feed is slow and not very reliable
NeXT info: EMAIL with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
	PGP 2.6.2 key: email with SUBJECT: send-ascii pgpkey

---

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:28:17 +0100 (BST)

Bad news, I'm I'm afraid...

Pine doesn't (yet?) offer a way of finding out about new newsgroups that
have been created. 

(Pine Team: It would be Truly Wonderful if it did one day ... Hint, Hint!
:-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44-1904-433811  FAX: +44-1904-433740  http://www.york.ac.uk/~pmb1/

---

From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 21 Aug 1996 23:15:35 GMT

[email-masked] (Timothy J. Luoma):
> My ISP claims to have added new newsgroups.
> How can I find out what they are using PINE (3.95)?
> I don't see any features which relate to this.

Sven

---

From: "J. Melusky" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:12:22 -0700

On 21 Aug 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> Thanks TjL

Hi TjL, Here is what I do when I get to the screen below:

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

INBOX               sent-mail           saved-messages      postponed-msgs
printme             sent-mail-jul-1996

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
News-collection <News on news.u.washington.edu>
(Remote)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

alt.arts.storytelling                       alt.ascii-art
alt.consumers.experiences                   alt.quotations
alt.soc.ethics                              alt.tv.highlander
alt.windows95                               alt.zines
comp.dcom.modems                            comp.mail.pine
comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc                        de.talk.jokes.d

  Ok TjL, when I get to this screen I type: "A" to subscribe.
PINE asks me:
"Enter full group name or substring of group to get list: "

Ok, then I enter a period "." and hit return. I figured that every Usenet
group has a period in it so basically a list shows up of all the groups my
PINE provider carries. I hope this helps ya. Take care, J.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                       o
    __/\o_    __o     < \
            _ \<_    _/\
           (_)/(_)     /   Triathalon    [email-masked]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~