The slrn FAQ

John E. Davis <[email protected]>
Matthias Friedrich <[email protected]>
Thomas Schultz <[email protected]>
Thomas Wiegner <[email protected]>
Peter J Ross <[email protected]>

1. General questions about slrn

• 1.1 What is slrn?
• 1.2 Where can I download slrn?
• 1.3 Where is slrn's documentation?
• 1.4 Are there any mailing lists and/or newsgroups about slrn?
• 1.5 slrn appears quite stable. Why don't you call it version 1.0?
• 1.6 How well are slang-2 and Unicode supported right now?
• 1.7 I upgraded from version 0.9.8.1 to 0.9.9. What do I have to change in my slrnrc?

2. Configuration

• 2.1 Is it possible to set my ``From:'' header line for postings?
• 2.2 How can I set my ``Message-ID:'' header?
• 2.3 How can I set the size of the article pager?
• 2.4 What charset settings should I use under Windows?
• 2.5 How can I use an external e-mail program for replies?
• 2.6 The thread tree is not drawn properly. Why?
• 2.7 Can I use the mouse with slrn?
• 2.8 How can I rotate signatures in slrn?

3. Usage

• 3.1 What is a prefix argument?
• 3.2 Treatment of read articles
• 3.3 Handling of binary postings
• 3.4 How can I mark cross-posts as read in other groups as well?
• 3.5 Why doesn't the ``L'' command work as advertised?
• 3.6 How do I cross-post an article?
• 3.7 How do I use the mouse in an XTerm to copy/paste?
• 3.8 How can I sort the list of newsgroups?

4. Scoring

• 4.1 What is scoring?
• 4.2 How can I killfile with slrn?
• 4.3 How do I set up slrn to read a scorefile?
• 4.4 What is the format of an slrn scorefile?
• 4.5 Where can I get a full description of slrn's regular expressions?
• 4.6 How can I test whether my regular expressions do what I expect them to do?
• 4.7 Is there an easy way to watch or kill threads / authors?
• 4.8 Do I need to remove expired entries from my scorefile manually?
• 4.9 How do I score on a specific ``Subject'' line, e.g., ``test'' messages?
• 4.10 How do I score articles from a specific person?
• 4.11 How do I score articles from a specific site?
• 4.12 How do I score followups?
• 4.13 Is it possible to score followups to my own postings?
• 4.14 How do I kill cross-posts from a specific group?
• 4.15 How do I score all cross-posts?
• 4.16 How do I make it so I read only articles from a specific person?
• 4.17 How do I score articles that have no ``References'' line but whose ``Subject'' line starts with ``Re:''?
• 4.18 How do I score subjects that contain only uppercase characters?
• 4.19 How can I filter people without a real name?

5. slrnpull

• 5.1 What is slrnpull?
• 5.2 Why can't I post when using slrnpull?
• 5.3 How do I get a full list of newsgroups?

6. I found a bug in slrn!!!

• 6.1 slrn hangs infinitely when I press the delete key
• 6.2 Non US-ASCII characters are displayed incorrectly.
• 6.3 The bug I found is not listed here. What do I do now?

7. About this document

• 7.1 History