Add your favorite newsgroups to this configuration file manually in order to speed up subscribing. After you read some articles, the numbering will be added showing what you've read. The message numbers displayed inside Pine only show the available postings, while the recorded numbers are the entire set.
Prior messages are in hyperspace.
Once you get tired of reading alt.stale.news, you'll probably delete or unsubscribe from it. To make processing faster, you can erase this line, as Pine will read and write this file every time that you read, delete, or post any news. Should you think you may resubscribe later, you can first save that line in another file so that Pine will then be able to remember the messages that you have read. How to find a group to read MIT is a major repository of Usenet lore. To be in the mainstream, read the above.