News_Groups_File

   If you use the news reading capability in Pine to talk to a NNTP
   server, then you need to have a NEWSRC. file in the PMDF_INIT:
   directory, or a newsrc file with a non-default name as selected
   by your NEWSRC-PATH Setup Config option. This file contains the
   names of news groups you read. Pine updates it when you delete
   a message in the news group. Deleting a message in news does not
   really delete it, but simply makes the message unavailable to
   you when you next read the associated news group. The format of
   this file is one line per news group, with the lines having the
   format:

   newsgroupname:[message,...]

   where MESSAGE is either a number or a range of numbers (e.g.,
   1-3).