Subject: Pine and multi NNTP servers

From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:44:01 +0200 (MEST)

Hello,

There are few question which still bothering me about News and Pine.

1) The first is about multi NNTP servers and way how the pine uses them to
send a post to the news groups.

The problem occurs when I try to post a message to the one NNTP server from one
news collection defined like this:

    NEWS - SONY
        News groups on news.sonytel.be/nntp

    NEWS - Arch Pan (Wrocław)
        News groups on news.arch.pan.wroc.pl/nntp/user=murphy

Then normal reaction is to set both NNTP severs to the "nntp-server" field in
the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen, but this solution doesn't work so nice because
it try to send a message using each news server from the specified list as long
as it find the correct one.

I think the Pine should take the server name from a collection definition list,
not from "nntp-server" list in case when the server is not defined in the
"nntp-server" or there is more nntp servers defined in the collection list.

2) The second issue is a problem when the different NNTP servers contains this
same news group names.

In this case there is no way to define some role which will explicitly
recognise which NNTP server to use to send a post to the news groups.

Using the previous collection definition, where each one can contain a group
named "alt.news", posting to the group we have only the "alt.news" in the
"Newsgrps:" header field and no info about which NNTP server will be used to
send this message.

There is also no rule to NNTP servers, either in a pure Pine 4.44 or patched
version.

3) There is no way to refresh and automatically download a new posted messages
from a opened newsgroup message index. Shortcut CTRL+L doesn't work for this
screen. Only opening the another folder and go back to the newsgroup window
can help this or closing a Pine and open it again.

Assuming: Looks like a Pine at this moment is not able to fully handle a
newsgroups trough a NNTP servers.

Regards,
Murphy

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