Subject: Re: newsgroup wacky workaround (Was: New mail not detected in POP3)mailbox

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:52:12 +0000 (GMT)

On 24 Jan 2001, Eduardo Chappa ([email-masked]) wrote:
> *** Nance McGough ([email-masked]) wrote in the...:
> :) Hey, I like this wacky workaround! You can also do this with a
> :) newsgroup that you read regularly, e.g.:
> :)
> :)  {news.server/nntp}#news.comp.mail.pine,
> :)
> :) Since newsgroups are like POP inboxes in that you need to reopen
> :) them to find out if there are any new msgs.
>
> All of these are very old workarounds, why so much excitement about them?
> Also, I see no reason to put a newsgroup as an incoming folder other than
> pushing tab to go to it, why would someone want to do this other than this
> reason?. Maybe someone can explain to me what the advantage of this is.
>
>   Sorry, my mind is too logical to understand this excitement.

The excitement for me is that I can now open a frequently
accessed POP or newsgroup folder using only 3 keystrokes namely:

 G
 CR (carriage return)
 TAB

The trick, which Terry described, is making your default inbox
local and bogus (i.e., not receiving any new messages) so that
the first two keystrokes

 G
 CR

do not take any time at all. Do you, Eduardo, have a POP INBOX
that receives a lot of messages that you check regularly
throughout the day? My guess is that you don't because otherwise
I think you'd appreciate this.

^X,
Nancy

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:10:30 -0800 (PST)

:) do not take any time at all. Do you, Eduardo, have a POP INBOX
:) that receives a lot of messages that you check regularly
:) throughout the day? My guess is that you don't because otherwise
:) I think you'd appreciate this.

No I do not have a pop3 inbox, but if I had one I would have applied this 
trick a long time ago. I think the trick is too old to be excited about 
it.

  I also access my newsgroups pressing "G CR", TAB is too slow and you
never know where you'll stop if you press it blindly (as most Pine users
do). The "G CR"  combination (plus a few ^N if necessary) is the fastest I
think, regardless from where you have your newsgroup.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/