Subject: Configure news collections

From: Coolens Hugo <[email-masked]>
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:52:04 GMT

I am trying to configure my pine news collections setup, however the syntax I
have to use is a mystery to me.
I already figured out that the following works:
*{news.belnet.be/nntp}[sci.electronics.design}
But I want to have other groups in the same collection, e.g. comp.sys.atari.st
How should I do this?

regards,
Hugo Coolens
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:08:27 -0700

> But I want to have other groups in the same collection, e.g. comp.sys.atari.st

You will almost always get what you want if you set the nntp-server
variable and clear the news-collections variable in the Setup/Config
screen, e.g. 

	nntp-server=news.belnet.be
	news-collections=

Pine will then set news-collections to an appropriate default, which
is approximately

	news-collections=*{news.belnet.be/nntp}[*]

--DLM

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From: Andrej Borsenkow <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:14:09 +0400 (MOW)

> 	news-collections=*{news.belnet.be/nntp}[*]

The question was slightly different. What should I do, if I want
sci.electronics.design *and* comp.sys.atari.st in *one* collection? If I
define collection as {news.host}comp.[], there is no way to put also
sci.something in there; and if I define collection as {news.host}[], then
*all* groups will be in that collection - not very handy.

I already aske the same question - how can I make alt.security.pgp *and*
comp.security.pgp.[] appear as *one* collection? Without any other group
form comp.[] or alt.[] appearing there also?

I have several dozens groups defined splitted between different collection
- but I would like to keep logically related groups together. Currently it
is just not possible.

Any idea?

greetings

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:31:54 -0700 (PDT)

> - but I would like to keep logically related groups together. Currently it

Hmmm...  That is a considerably tougher problem that Pine does not yet
solve...

--DLM

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:04 -0700 (PDT)

> form comp.[] or alt.[] appearing there also?

It was just brought to my attention that this specific case is
solvable in Pine 3.95 (and earlier) by specifying

	news-collections=[*security.pgp*]

I had forgotten that you can have both leading and trailing '*'s
insode the []... 

--DLM