Re: Problems with -R option

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:08:19PM +0400, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> And here seems to be a problem, for in the thread  I
> am  interested in, all messages older than a certain
> one are marked as read and newsrc is changed accord-
> ingly. In consequence of running tin -R, that is.
> 
> When  run  with  -R, tin shows 164 unread messges in
> that newsgroup.  But when I highlight the  newsgroup

you usualy can't trust that number - it is a "best guess",
the real numbers for each group are calculated when you
enter the group.

> and  press  enter it shows only that one thread with
> nine messages.  When I press 'q' to get back to  the

but there are ~160 saved articles below ~/News?

> newsgroup list, 9 instead of 164 messages are shown.
> Does is it mean some default filters  may  be  doing
> it?  I am sure I didn't set up any.

the filters are in ~/.tin/filters, you can safely remove that file.
there should be no default filters in place.

> P.S.: And  another question: what credentials to use
>       to authorize on  the  news.tin.org  server  to
>       read the mailing list archive via NNTP?

the server is open for reading without any credentials

urs
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