messagebase maintenance

From: Thomas Pothmann (sl0528@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 20:04:04 +0100

Hi,

I'm a YARN (0.92/DOS) newuser, so don't be angry with me, if the
answer to my question could be found possibly somewhere in the docs,
which I studied without success relating thereto.

So, here's my question: Is there any way to mark articles in the
newsbase for not to be deleted, when expire -o or expire -r is run;
I mean something like a hold flag similar to the read and answer flag?

For the present I save those articles by putting them via *s* key to
text files in the \home\news directory; unfortunately the articels are
no longer accessible for the reader from that place, so I can't
neither read nor answer them any more.

Another question: The INS key at newsgroup selection level presents
only those newsgroups, which I've already subscribed to, so how to
subscribe to some other newsgroups from within YARN; for the present I
do subscribe by sending e-mails to UQWK with SUBSCRIBE <blahfasel> as
only line in the message body.

Any hints?

Thanks and bye,
Thomas.

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