Re: new to usenet, some slrn questions

On 2009-04-24, TomB <tommy.bongaerts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-04-24, Steven DuBois was urged to write the following:
I'm new to usenet, and I am using slrn as my reader.

Good call!

My questions are
as follows:

1) When i read a message, and go back to it again later. It is
gone. Why is this happening?

The default behaviour of slrn is not to show read messages. You can
overrule this by entering a group with [esc][1][space] and then the
number of headers you want to fetch. When you end up with uncomplete
threads this way, you can use [esc][1][esc][p] to rebuilt the thread.

ah, that works. Is there a way to enable that by default? I read
through the documentation and could not find anything.

2) How does slrn list messages? It does not appear to be by date.

You can specify this in your .slrnrc file. Here's the relevant section of
mine:

#+v
% These sorting methods are available:
% If 0, do not sort. If 1, perform threading. If 2, sort by subject.
% If 3, thread then sort result by subject.
% If 4, sort by score. If 5, thread then sort by score.
% If 6, sort by score and subject.
% If 7, thread, then sort by score and subject.
% If 8, sort by date with most recent first.
% If 9, thread, then sort by date with most recent first.
% If 10, sort by date with most recent last.
% If 11, thread then sort by date with most recent last.
% If 12, use the value of the custom_sort_order variable.
set sorting_method 9
#-v

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://slrn.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

is a great source for information.



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