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    From ant@ant@tilde.club to news.software.readers on Mon Oct 20 11:33:55 2025
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    Hello, all.

    Can tin keep an archive of the articles I posted? I mean not the
    posting history, which contains only headers, but entire artcicles
    including the body?
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to news.software.readers on Mon Oct 20 12:25:37 2025
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    ant <ant@tilde.club> wrote:
    Hello, all.

    Can tin keep an archive of the articles I posted? I mean not the
    posting history, which contains only headers, but entire artcicles
    including the body?

    See the *two* different 'posted' files in 'man 5 tin'.

    The default for the file you want is

    ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail/posted

    but it can be changed by the setting posted_articles_file and
    default_savedir in your tinrc file or elswhere.

    I have

    # Directory where articles/threads are saved
    default_savedir=~/News
    ...
    # Filename where to keep all postings (default posted)
    # If no filename is set then postings will not be saved posted_articles_file=posted

    in my tinrc file, so my posted articles are saved in

    ~/News/posted

    I made this change, because the default Mail/posted is illogical for
    News articles.

    My News/posted file is some 900K lines, so I have posted hardly any
    articles at all! :-)
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  • From Urs =?UTF-8?Q?Jan=C3=9Fen?=@urs@buil.tin.org to news.software.readers on Mon Oct 20 12:53:54 2025
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    In Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
    I made this change, because the default Mail/posted is illogical for
    News articles.

    It's below ~/Mail as the file is in mbox format (so it can be viewed
    via e.g. mutt -f Mail/posted).
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to news.software.readers on Mon Oct 20 13:19:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    Urs Jan#en <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:
    In Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
    I made this change, because the default Mail/posted is illogical for
    News articles.

    It's below ~/Mail as the file is in mbox format (so it can be viewed
    via e.g. mutt -f Mail/posted).

    Thanks. Good reason. I should have known that you wouldn't do anything illogical! :-)
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  • From Anton Shepelev@anton.txt@gmail.moc to news.software.readers on Tue Oct 21 00:49:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    Urs Janssen:

    It's below ~/Mail as the file is in mbox format (so it can be
    viewed via e.g. mutt -f Mail/posted).

    Thanks. Here it is described in tin.5:

    ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/Mail/posted
    Copy of all posted articles in mbox(5) format. The filename
    can be changed by setting posted_articles_file.
    --
    () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail
    /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
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