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

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> 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,


I am one of the few who still reads Usenet NGs. I use alpine, and I have 
configured it in "catchall mode". Essentially I press D to "mark for 
deletion" all messages I read except those pending for replies, or my 
latest replies. Autoexpunge on exit.

If I want to go back to an older message still on the server, I press & 
and wait patiently. After a while I can see the old ones, tagged "D" and 
eventually Undelete a few.