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Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!

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On 19/06/2024 09.49, D wrote:> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Daniel wrote:

>> Is the newsgroup part of alpine integrated with email? Like, is it
>> interchangable and all that?

> Yes, it works pretty much like email. Same shorts cuts and way to 
> navigate. Only drawback with the default news functionality is that it 
> is online only, so you have to be connected. You can get around that, 
> but it is a little bit complicated.
> 
> 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.

> 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.

-- 
  //Aho

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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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