How Do I Get Alpine To Show Only Last 30 Days Newsgroups?

Kurtis Brown

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Nov 29, 2011, 6:26:55 AM11/29/11

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Hi, I am trying to get alpine to show only the last 30 days of
newsgroups when I subscribe to a new one. At the min it shows everything
posted.

Thanks

Kurt

Lucas Levrel

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Nov 29, 2011, 9:31:29 AM11/29/11

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Le 29 novembre 2011, Kurtis Brown a ï¿œcrit :

> Hi, I am trying to get alpine to show only the last 30 days of
> newsgroups when I subscribe to a new one. At the min it shows everything
> posted.

I don't think you can do this, but you can limit to an absolute number of
posts : see NNTP Range (in Config).

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Kurtis Brown

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Nov 29, 2011, 9:48:49 AM11/29/11

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Lucas Levrel wrote:

> Le 29 novembre 2011, Kurtis Brown a écrit :
>
>> Hi, I am trying to get alpine to show only the last 30 days of
>> newsgroups when I subscribe to a new one. At the min it shows everything
>> posted.
>
> I don't think you can do this, but you can limit to an absolute number of
> posts : see NNTP Range (in Config).
>
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> LL
>

Perfect it means I can get rid of some of the old stuff now :D

Kurt

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 29, 2011, 10:02:54 AM11/29/11

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Kurtis Brown <ku...@debian.Home> wrote:

> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
> while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

>--8323329-673292742-1322578131=:1800
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE

Could you please NEVER under any circumstances, post to News with
quoted printable transfer encoding? Usenet is 8-bit clean.

Kurtis Brown

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Nov 29, 2011, 10:20:37 AM11/29/11

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How do I change this in alpine? Sorry have never used usenet before.

Holger Marzen

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Nov 29, 2011, 10:40:41 AM11/29/11

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QP ist no problem. Alpine's MIME-Format is.

Lucas Levrel

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Nov 29, 2011, 10:45:26 AM11/29/11

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Le 29 novembre 2011, Adam H. Kerman a écrit :

> Could you please NEVER under any circumstances, post to News with
> quoted printable transfer encoding? Usenet is 8-bit clean.

This is no problem to Alpine. So why bother, in *this* group?

:-D

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Andreas Prilop

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Nov 29, 2011, 11:23:28 AM11/29/11

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Usenet is 8-bit clean.

Google Groups isn’t.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pine/msg/523ff0411efec481

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Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 29, 2011, 2:15:42 PM11/29/11

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Lucas Levrel <lucas....@u-pec.fr> wrote:
>Le 29 novembre 2011, Adam H. Kerman a crit :

>>Could you please NEVER under any circumstances, post to News with
>>quoted printable transfer encoding? Usenet is 8-bit clean.

>This is no problem to Alpine. So why bother, in *this* group?

So you believe there's a per-newsgroup setting for sending 7-bit
versus 8-bit in alpine? Do you also believe there are no other
newsreaders? Amazing.

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 29, 2011, 2:18:47 PM11/29/11

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Andreas Prilop <prilo...@trashmail.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>Usenet is 8-bit clean.

>Google Groups isn't.
>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pine/msg/523ff0411efec481

Google Groups sucks for so many reasons...

Why on earth not, given that the Web's default character set is 8 bit?

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 29, 2011, 2:21:59 PM11/29/11

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Enable 8bit NNTP Posting

There is a comparable setting for Mail:
Enable 8bit ESMTP Negotiation

If ESMTP isn't available, it falls back on SMTP (7bit), so it's
backwards compatible.

cha...@washington.edu

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Nov 29, 2011, 9:16:23 PM11/29/11

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You can create a filter, and define the "Age Interval" parameter to
set this. However, it is probably faster to use the nntp-range
variable in the main configuration screen.

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Lucas Levrel

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Nov 30, 2011, 9:32:10 AM11/30/11

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Le 29 novembre 2011, Adam H. Kerman a écrit :

> Lucas Levrel <lucas....@u-pec.fr> wrote:
>
>> This is no problem to Alpine. So why bother, in *this* group?
>
> So you believe there's a per-newsgroup setting for sending 7-bit
> versus 8-bit in alpine? Do you also believe there are no other
> newsreaders? Amazing.

You trimmed my post. Amazing.

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Andreas Prilop

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Nov 30, 2011, 11:25:34 AM11/30/11

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>> Usenet is 8-bit clean.
>
>> Google Groups isn't.

^
I did not write an ASCII apostrophe (') — I wrote an apostrophe (’).

> Google Groups sucks for so many reasons...

Google Groups is quite useful as an archive.

> Why on earth not, given that the Web's default character set is 8 bit?

I think you confuse “charset” and “Content-Transfer-Encoding”.

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 30, 2011, 6:06:10 PM11/30/11

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What syntax violation is alpine creating? This isn't something I've
read about.

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 30, 2011, 6:07:51 PM11/30/11

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I trimmed nothing that you wrote, but the MIME boilerplate and headers
from the OP's article. You're an idiot. Not amazing.

Adam H. Kerman

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Nov 30, 2011, 6:31:49 PM11/30/11

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Andreas Prilop <prilo...@trashmail.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Please don't cut attribution lines if you retain the quotes.

>>>>Usenet is 8-bit clean.

>>>Google Groups isn't.
> ^

>I did not write an ASCII apostrophe (') I wrote an apostrophe.

I refuse to use proprietary Microsoft character codes, so I substitute
ASCII characters if possible.

You know you managed to encode your .sig delimeter? --=20
Don't do that.

>>Google Groups sucks for so many reasons...

>Google Groups is quite useful as an archive.

Not for the last several years since they broke indexing.

>>Why on earth not, given that the Web's default character set is 8 bit?

>I think you confuse charset and Content-Transfer-Encoding.

I think you are using pedantry to avoid answering the question.

The Web uses an 8-bit character set by default. QP encoding of 8-bit
characters is never required. Yes, I know about character substitutions
in URLs, but that's encoding for another purpose. If a non-default
8-bit character set is used, then the Web page must identify which
one is being used; no encoding is required.

Holger Marzen

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Dec 1, 2011, 7:54:43 AM12/1/11

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Pine does nothing wrong but MIME is not known by all newsreaders. So
it's polite not to use MIME in Usenet.

Adam H. Kerman

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Dec 1, 2011, 9:25:05 AM12/1/11

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I certainly agree with this. As part of my long-standing objection for
MIME being inflicted upon News, I don't add MIME headers to my articles.

Lucas Levrel

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Dec 1, 2011, 11:12:07 AM12/1/11

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Le 30 novembre 2011, Adam H. Kerman a écrit :
> I trimmed nothing that you wrote, but the MIME boilerplate and headers
> from the OP's article. You're an idiot. Not amazing.

You did trim my post. Go buy yourself a pair of reading glasses.
I must be an idiot, indeed: I'm answering you (back).

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