How to force reload complete list of available groups with tin (Linux) ?

mccr...@solfire.fritz.box

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Apr 11, 2021, 8:38:37 AM4/11/21

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Hi,

I am at the very beginning to get all this newsgroup stuff working.

I am using tin with Linux.

Tin is authenticating me automatically now and reads a handful of
groups.

An article says I need to force reload the complete list of groups,
but up to now I have no success...

Any help available?

Paul

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Apr 11, 2021, 10:50:29 AM4/11/21

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I would have practiced first, on a "simpler" setup,
to see what the files are supposed to look like.

https://news.aioe.org/

tin -g nntp.aioe.org
q

*******

I tried the test, and these are the artifacts.

.newsrc
.tin
nntp.aioe.org
serverrc 416 bytes
.oldnewsrc 235 bytes
newsgroups 2,491,479 bytes

If I

mv newsgroups newsgroups.old

then

tin -g nntp.aioe.org

it downloads a new copy of "newsgroups"
and puts it in that directory.

If the file is a couple megabytes, that means
your E-S is authenticated, if the newsgroups
file is very short (1KB), that means authentication
did not happen.

*******

The full-qualified domain name error, refers to the
local node, and nobody cares about that :-)

Paul

Lewis

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Apr 11, 2021, 9:19:29 PM4/11/21

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In message <s4uqkb$s31$1...@anonymous.dont-email.me> <mccr...@solfire.fritz.box> <mccr...@solfire.fritz.box> wrote:
> Hi,

> I am at the very beginning to get all this newsgroup stuff working.

> I am using tin with Linux.

> Tin is authenticating me automatically now and reads a handful of
> groups.

How do you know it is authenticating you properly? What is the handful
of groups? Do they have something in common like they all start with
eternal-september. ?

> An article says I need to force reload the complete list of groups,
> but up to now I have no success...

Sounds like you are NOT authenticating properly.

I haven’t configured tin in more than 20 years, and never used it
regularly. If you were using slrn, I could help with that.

> Any help available?

More information needed.

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Apr 15, 2021, 9:20:14 AM4/15/21

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On 4/11/21 7:38 AM, mccr...@solfire.fritz.box wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am at the very beginning to get all this newsgroup stuff working.
>
> I am using tin with Linux.
>

ThunderBird works perfect

David E. Ross

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Apr 18, 2021, 2:00:37 PM4/18/21

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I found that I first have to connect to the Eternal September server
before refreshing the list of newsgroups. That is, I have to subscribe
to at least one newsgroup (even a newsgroup that I do not really want)
and download messages from it.

I am using an older version of Thunderbird, but this is not a
Thunderbird problem. I do not have to connect to the AIOE server to
refresh its lis of newsgroups.

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Lewis

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Apr 18, 2021, 4:31:39 PM4/18/21

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In message <s5hs41$3jv$1...@anonymous.dont-email.me> David E. Ross <nob...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> I found that I first have to connect to the Eternal September server
> before refreshing the list of newsgroups. That is, I have to subscribe
> to at least one newsgroup (even a newsgroup that I do not really want)
> and download messages from it.

> I am using an older version of Thunderbird, but this is not a
> Thunderbird problem. I do not have to connect to the AIOE server to
> refresh its lis of newsgroups.

E-S requires that you be logged in to access groups outside the
eternal-September.* hierarchy, and that included accessing the list of
groups. However, you do not have to SUBSCRIBE to any group in order to
do that.

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NoName

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May 5, 2021, 9:46:39 AM5/5/21

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On 4/11/21 7:38 AM, mccr...@solfire.fritz.box wrote:

Why are you using shit like that ?

Chris Green

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May 5, 2021, 10:18:06 AM5/5/21

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'y'ank toggles the complete list of groups, though I don't really know
why you'd have to do this.

There's a mailing list for tin-users.

>
>
> Why are you using shit like that ?

Because it's a very good newsreader and still actively maintained.

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Adam H. Kerman

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May 5, 2021, 11:29:19 AM5/5/21

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Why are you troll feeding?

Lewis

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May 5, 2021, 12:36:57 PM5/5/21

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In message <frlamh-...@esprimo.zbmc.eu> Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> NoName <Bit...@bitch.org> wrote:
>> On 4/11/21 7:38 AM, mccr...@solfire.fritz.box wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am at the very beginning to get all this newsgroup stuff working.
>> >
>> > I am using tin with Linux.
>> >
>> > Tin is authenticating me automatically now and reads a handful of
>> > groups.
>> >
>> > An article says I need to force reload the complete list of groups,
>> > but up to now I have no success...
>> >
>> > Any help available?
>> >
> 'y'ank toggles the complete list of groups, though I don't really know
> why you'd have to do this.

> There's a mailing list for tin-users.

There's a man page as well.

Here's a web copy of it:

<https://www.mankier.com/1/tin>

Might be something there, though I think you may have to get the list of
groups from your newserver outside of tin.

> Because it's a very good newsreader and still actively maintained.

Nothing wrong with tin, though I like slrn myself.

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May 6, 2021, 8:33:13 AM5/6/21

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>>> Why are you using shit like that ?
>
>> Because it's a very good newsreader and still actively maintained.
>
> Why are you troll feeding?
>

tin is a out dated piece of shit ... from the 1970s mind set.

why don't you simply use punch cards ??