chris posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 07 May 2005 05:31:31 +0930:
> Hi. I was playing with the Filter buttons on pan 0.14.2.91 for ubuntu. > And I can't get it back to how it was originally. > > Now all the posts by people who are in my plonk file, appear highlighted > in black. They're not supposed to appear at all. Deselect the "Match Scores of -9999 (Ignored)" entry on the filter menu. That will hide ignored (plonked) posts, but they still exist in PANs list, and without further intervention, still show up as unread. That's always seemed illogical to me. If I'm ignoring them, I CERTAINLY don't want them to count as unread, where they aren't displayed for me to mark them read (unless I simply mark the entire group read, but I often keep messages around, marked unread, to reply to latter, so that won't work, either). Further, if they are "ignored", I want them to be "ignored", that is, not appear in the counts /at/ /all/, as if they were never there to download. This can be accomplished by setting up an appropriate rule, based on an appropriate filter. First, I set up a filter, called "Ignored", select the "Article score is at least", and set it to "Low" (which is now /including/ all /but/ ignored), add it to the filter condition list, select it, and hit the invert button, to invert the logic so it's now /only/ ignored, instead of all /but/ ignored. OK out of the filter dialog, and I now have the filter "Ignored", that I can apply with a rule. I then create a new rule, also called "Ignored", and ensure that "Apply to incoming" is checked. Switching to the filter tab, I select the "Ignored" filter. On the newsgroups tab, "Rule applies to all newsgroups". On the actions tab, I have "Delete article" selected, altho if you don't want to be so extreme, you can simply tell it to "Mark as" "Read", instead. OKing out of that, you now have your filter, which will automatically mark as read or delete all future "ignored" articles as PAN downloads the overviews (wrongly aka headers) for them, so you never see them. There does, however, remain one catch. PAN doesn't automatically apply this filter retroactively. Therefore, in the rules dialog, select your new ignored rule, and hit the "Apply to Subscribed Groups" button. That will apply the new rule retroactively to your current groups, deleting (or marking as read, whatever you set) all ignored posts. Do keep in mind that even so, every time you /add/ a new plonk, the rule still applies only automatically applies to new posts, so existing posts will be hidden, but remain as they were when the plonk was added. To get the ignored rule to mark as read or delete existing posts already in PAN's database, you'll need to manually apply the rule, just as you did above, when first creating it. Now /that's/ an ignored setup that acts rather more how I'd expect "ignored" to act. If I plonk something, I don't /ever/ want to see it, not even to refer back to it after seeing a quote from it in someone else's post. For those posts I just don't want to see normally, but which I want PAN to keep around so I can refer back to them after seeing them quoted, I use the scoring option to score the post down below zero, but not all the way to ignored. I have another rule set up for these, that just marks them as read, without deleting them. Thus, if I need to, I can toggle the view read filter, and go back to the low-scored article to read it. This doesn't often happen, but it's nice being able to set "full ignored" for some things, while only setting "don't show by default", for others. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
