As suggested by Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I upgraded to the new version of tin (in "slink"), and everything is working fine again.
Don't know the reason of the problem, but may be I will post something to the Debian bug tracking system? Any suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am using tin_980226-3.deb on Debian 2.0. > I can read news, but I can't post because of some 7/8 bit matter which I > didn't look into. > Few days ago there was someone asking on this list about this 7/8 bit matter. > I think he is using it under Hamm too. > > > I installed a fresh Debian 2.0 system via FTP. The tin newsreader shows > > the groups available, but when I press Enter to see the headers, the > > program hangs. > > > > I found this problem on two different systems. > > > > I fixed the problem by purging tin_980226-3.deb and installing the old > > version from a Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM. The old package is tin_97.03.21-1.deb > > which required the old lib ncurses3.0. Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy