Subject: Connecting to NNTP Server

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:34:46 -0700 (PDT)

This should be simple.  I'm running linux on a home PC with PINE 4.10
installed which I'd like to set up for usenet access.  Everything
appears to be in place except for a small hangup.  Somehow I need to
give PINE the userid that the remote news server is expecting when I
attempt a connection.  Right now the program assumes that the userid
matches that found in the local /etc/password file.  Thus I can't
connect to the news server.

I've perused all of the documentation I can find on my system and the
web and have made all of the changes/overrides in the ~/.pinerc and
/etc/pine-conf files that seem to apply but to no avail.  I'm stumped.

Any assistance or direction to the appropriate documentation will be
appreciated.

Kevin
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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:44:02 -0700 (PDT)

Try the /user= flag.  So it'd look something like
{your.news.server.com/user=username/nntp}

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:26:55 -0700 (PDT)

Thank you.  That did the trick.  Another question I have, Is it
possible to limit the number of postings from a news group to, say, the
most recent 100?  I'm sure I've seen the detail on this somewhere but
can't find it now.

Kevin

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:51:57 -0700 (PDT)

You can enable-aggregate-command-set and then press ; to select messages
by certain criteria, but I don't think you can automatically exclude old
messages without first deleting them (or doing the same thing manually in
the .newsrc).

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:45:03 -0700 (PDT)

Ok, I've been reading about that, too.  I'll just have to deal with the
1000+ postings from the groups I'm interested in.  Thanks again.

Kevin
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