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  • tin: how to refresh list of groups?

    From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 12:16:47 2024
    Hi,

    I decided to try tin again, but I'm having a lot of issues. Right now,
    the menu is completely empty.. how do I subscribe to newsgroups?
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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to candycanearter07@nomail.afraid.org on Fri Feb 23 18:40:02 2024
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    Hi,

    I decided to try tin again, but I'm having a lot of issues. Right now,
    the menu is completely empty.. how do I subscribe to newsgroups?

    Help ('h') is context dependent.

    In short, on the 'Group Selection' page, use 'g' (group) to find a
    group in the active file and then use 's' (subscribe) to that group.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Fri Feb 23 13:37:23 2024
    On 2/23/24 12:40, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    Hi,

    I decided to try tin again, but I'm having a lot of issues. Right now,
    the menu is completely empty.. how do I subscribe to newsgroups?

    Help ('h') is context dependent.

    In short, on the 'Group Selection' page, use 'g' (group) to find a
    group in the active file and then use 's' (subscribe) to that group.

    Realized I wasn't authenticating too (-A flag) and now its hanging on
    "reading groups from active file" before crashing from an nntp
    connection error..
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 13:48:42 2024
    On 2/23/24 13:37, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 2/23/24 12:40, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    Hi,

    I decided to try tin again, but I'm having a lot of issues. Right now,
    the menu is completely empty.. how do I subscribe to newsgroups?

       Help ('h') is context dependent.

       In short, on the 'Group Selection' page, use 'g' (group) to find a
    group in the active file and then use 's' (subscribe) to that group.

    Realized I wasn't authenticating too (-A flag) and now its hanging on "reading groups from active file" before crashing from an nntp
    connection error..

    Another note is that when just running tin -r, it does work partially.
    You have to manually fetch the ng, which I didn't realize, but it's
    still limited to the e-s hierarchy. Also, it still crashes when trying
    to enter one. I think it *might* be an issue with server timeout? since
    after it crashes the e-s connection refuses for a bit.
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 14:28:07 2024
    On 2/23/24 13:48, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 2/23/24 13:37, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 2/23/24 12:40, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    Hi,

    I decided to try tin again, but I'm having a lot of issues. Right now, >>>> the menu is completely empty.. how do I subscribe to newsgroups?

       Help ('h') is context dependent.

       In short, on the 'Group Selection' page, use 'g' (group) to find a
    group in the active file and then use 's' (subscribe) to that group.

    Realized I wasn't authenticating too (-A flag) and now its hanging on
    "reading groups from active file" before crashing from an nntp
    connection error..

    Another note is that when just running tin -r, it does work partially.
    You have to manually fetch the ng, which I didn't realize, but it's
    still limited to the e-s hierarchy. Also, it still crashes when trying
    to enter one. I think it *might* be an issue with server timeout? since
    after it crashes the e-s connection refuses for a bit.

    It's definitely something with the timeout, using -t to lengthen it
    makes it exit faster/shorter.
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