I just read Bruce's post entitled 'A multi-server question' and it got me thinking.
There may be compelling reasons for not wanting to download a particular group from a particular server. Just one example: alt.binaries.pictures.animals is not carried by the gmane.org news server, but every time I fire up pan, the gmane.org server is queried for new headers for it and many other groups I follow. Wouldn't it be more fair to gmane.org if I could tell pan not to pester the gmane server for pictures of animals or mp3 files? There may also be other reasons for excluding a server from a particular newsgroup that I haven't even thought of yet. In the interest of symmetry I considered proposing 'Downloading Profiles' to complement 'Posting Profiles' but this may well be overkill. (Charles, does 'symmetry' tug at your heartstrings the same way it tugs at mine? ;o) Can anyone else come up with reasons for adding Downloading Profiles, or maybe just excluding a server from a Group Preference? _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
