Re: testing; and a few questions

[email protected] wrote:
> Actually, another odd thing I've rigged up is a Perl script
> that uses the .tin/posted file and a direct connection to 
> my news server to find threads I've posted to that have unread
> messages.  (It uses old school subject line matching rather 
> than proper referenes.) There's nothing like that hidden in
> tin proper, is there?

Pick one of two requirements: Your newsserver provides the
message-id in its response to the POST command or you recompile tin
with -DEVIL_INSIDE set in the Makefile. This is needed to have tin
knowing the message-ids of your postings.

After that, set add_posted_to_filter=ON in your tinrc to have tin
adding message-ids of your postings to your filter file. Now you
can use tin -Zv to see a summary of which newsgroups contain new
articles (how many new and how many hot):

[dirk@roxel dirk]$ tin [other options] -Z -v
Reading config file...
tin 1.7.1 release 20030918 ("Berneray") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2003 Iain Lea.
T-Online Newsserver bereit [01] (posting ok).
Reading global attributes file...
Reading attributes file...
Reading filter file...
Reading newsrc file...
Checking for news...
[...]
   1 unread (   0 hot) article in news.software.nntp
   6 unread (   1 hot) articles in news.software.readers
   4 unread (   2 hot) articles in de.comm.software.newsreader
[...]

However, I don't know if this is working correctly in 1.4.x.


Ah, and while we are talking about nuicances and UIs: Is it possible
for your mail reader to include a reference to the mail you answered
(In-Reply-To or References)? That's what _I_ call inconvenient, not
to see from the index to which mail you are responding to and rely
on other (unreliable) methods such as date sorting.