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Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, J.O. Aho wrote:

>> I have heard rumours from the more experienced usenet crowd that it lacks x 
>> and y, but since I'm an email guy at heart, it never bothered me that much.
>
> I did use it for some emergency usage, one of the issues I had was that the 
> posts weren't sorted by thread, but I didn't bother to check if it was 
> possible or not.

Yes, thread sorting is possible.

>> Try it out, maybe you'll like it! =) And if you want to explore the offline 
>> news mode, write me back and I'll guide you through it.
>
> I know some people setup their own nntp server locally, let it fetch the 
> posts and then use pine as the client to read and reply, but never gone that 
> path myself.

Yep, that's the trick. I use a lightly modified leafnode to fetch news,
and then a python script which copies the messages into Maildir folders.
That way I can read everything offline, and reply, without any problems.

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Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-01-20 14:01 +0100
  Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2024-06-19 07:07 +0000
    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 09:49 +0200
      Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2024-06-19 11:53 +0200
        Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 15:04 +0200
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    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-06-19 15:29 +0000

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