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[Nelu]

Nelu said:



I suppose you are referring to ken.

.... some *kind*...
But I was referring to cone .

 

[Nelu]

I suppose you are using some king of UNIX. I think cone (courier-mta)
works with utf-8 if the OS supports it.
http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/

Also, I think that tin (www.tin.org) supports utf-8.

 

[Jordan Abel]

Also, I think that tin (www.tin.org) supports utf-8.

Is tin configurable to automatically authenticate to individual.net?

 

[Nelu]

Is tin configurable to automatically authenticate to individual.net?

I think so, try this:
http://news.individual.net/configuration/tin162.php

 

[Jordan Abel]

I think so, try this:
http://news.individual.net/configuration/tin162.php

It'd be nice if this was documented by tin. Thanks, though.

 

[Nelu]

It'd be nice if this was documented by tin. Thanks, though.

It is. They have two man pages on their site and one of them
talks about setting tin up for "NNTP servers that require
authorization". You can only find that information on those
man pages. I don't think they have any other kind of documentation.
You can also subscribe to support newsgroups on their NNTP server
for more documentation. I started using it a few days ago because
I couldn't access my freeshell account (the servers were down
most of the time) just to see how it is. It seems nicer and easier
to use than slrn, plus, the last release was in April of this year,
as opposed to slrn which didn't have a release since 2004, I think.
I think I'll switch to it completely when freeshell becomes reliable
again .

 

[Jordan Abel]

(Stuff about TIN)

One more thing before I switch - is there a way to make it put a unique
string in the message-id so i can score messages based on seeing it in
the references header?

 

[Nelu]

(Stuff about TIN)

One more thing before I switch - is there a way to make it put a unique
string in the message-id so i can score messages based on seeing it in
the references header?

I am not using killfiles and scoring so I'm not sure about
that. They saying something here:
http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/tinfiltering.txt
Also, take a look at the man page here:
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=tin
and search for
{TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/filter

I hope that helps.

 

[Jordan Abel]

I am not using killfiles and scoring so I'm not sure about
that. They saying something here:
http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/tinfiltering.txt
Also, take a look at the man page here:
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=tin
and search for
{TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/filter

I can figure out my way around the filtering system - but i want a way
to get a unique string in my message-ids so that it can identify them.
[that's if it even has positive scoring, of course]

 

[Nelu]

I am not using killfiles and scoring so I'm not sure about
that. They saying something here:
http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/tinfiltering.txt
Also, take a look at the man page here:
http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=tin
and search for
{TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/filter

I can figure out my way around the filtering system - but i want a way
to get a unique string in my message-ids so that it can identify them.
[that's if it even has positive scoring, of course]

I guess that's a little beyond me .
As long as I can read news and use emacs to write
the messages, I'm fine with it ;-).

 

[Keith Thompson]

I can figure out my way around the filtering system - but i want a way
to get a unique string in my message-ids so that it can identify them.
[that's if it even has positive scoring, of course]

I guess that's a little beyond me .
As long as I can read news and use emacs to write
the messages, I'm fine with it ;-).

If you like emacs, you might consider gnus, a newsreader that runs
under emacs.

 

[Nelu]

I can figure out my way around the filtering system - but i want a way
to get a unique string in my message-ids so that it can identify them.
[that's if it even has positive scoring, of course]

I guess that's a little beyond me .
As long as I can read news and use emacs to write
the messages, I'm fine with it ;-).

If you like emacs, you might consider gnus, a newsreader that runs
under emacs.

I've used GNUS for a short period of time but, for some reason,
I didn't like it that much. I use both Linux and Windows and
GNUS was an advantage from this point of view (plus being part
of Emacs) but I kept switching
between slrn, thunderbird and gmail (bad experience, I still don't
really know how to use G2 properly and how to follow messages without
either losing or re-reading them - not sure it's even possible as
even the developers admitted at some point that they are doing their
best to track messages but it's not perfect).
Now I'm back to easy to use, console based readers (just not GNUS).