Subject: Newsgroups

From: hermit <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:39:29 -0500 (EST)

I am a newsgroup fan and using Pine I subscribed to: linux.redhat.misc

The newsgroup collected 4,440 messages, many of which had no headers and
had the *D* (delete) letter in front of them.  I realize that these
messages are no longer available.  What I would like to know, is how do I
delete ALL of the collected message headers at the same time rather than
scroll thru over four thousand of them and hitting *D* at each message.

Thanks for your help,

Dick

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:18:22 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, hermit wrote:

> messages are no longer available.

Actually, that's not quite right.  A "D" flag means that you've already
"deleted" the messages (as indicated in your .newsrc file).  You can still
read them, but when you press X to eXclude deleted messages, they'll
disappear.  You can later press & to get them back.

Messages that are no longer available simply disappear.

> What I would like to know, is how do I delete ALL of the collected
> message headers at the same time rather than scroll thru over four
> thousand of them and hitting *D* at each message.

You need to go into Main, Setup, Config and make sure
enable-aggregate-command-set (or similar, depending on your Pine version)
is checked.  Then you can use the ; key to select messages based on
certain criteria, and then use the A key to apply an action to all of
them.

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From: Satya <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:55:17 +0530 (IST)

>scroll thru over four thousand of them and hitting *D* at each message.

IIRC, they'll disappear when you exit. Or hit eXpunge whenever you want
Deleted items to disappear.

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