[Alpine-info] Are Their Hard Limits in News Group Articles?

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Chime Hart wrote:


> Thank you Andrew-and-Eduardo, will examin both your solutions. I will need to

> confirm that a range option will actually display the most recent postings?

> Seems many years ago, I tried it-and-I wasn't sure, but also, it seemingly

> didn't mark articles as read.


Articles are never marked as "read" in newsgroups in Alpine. In many 
newsreaders as soon as a message is read it is removed from your view 
forever, even though the message still exists in the server, but you 
cannot retrieve it anymore. In contrast, Alpine allows you to read a 
message as many times as you want, but only if it is available on the 
server, or you have marked it as "deleted and later expunge it".

Also, the nntp-range option refers to the last messages in the server. The 
rest of the messages in the server will not be visible in Alpine.

-- 
Eduardo