[Pine-info] news is new when unread

[Mark Crispin]

There is only one permanent status bit for news: the data that is recorded 
in the .newsrc file.  Pine and Alpine implement this bit as "deleted" 
status.

If you want to review deleted news postings, use the & (Unexclude) command 
to make them become visible again.  The postings aren't really deleted, 
they simply become invisible to subsequent sessions.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:

> well, news is no longer any news when read, however Alpine currently forgets 

> the "read" status as soon as the news folder is closed. The same behaviour 

> makes it a bit difficult to work with POP3 folders as well, but can be worked 

> around by using a maildrop. But for news reading this is really not a very 

> useful behaviour.

>

> Deleting each read message is in my eyes not a good solution either, because 

> I don't want older messages to disappear - it is often useful to go back and 

> read something again. Is there a workaround?


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