walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:15:09 +0000:
> 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? Actually, unless I'm extremely mistaken, the above is incorrect (unless you've hand-edited pan's config and screwed it up to do so, see my just- posted reply to the other thread you mentioned). Normally, pan will download a list of newsgroups from a newly configured server, and only check groups found in that list for that server. Since gmane (using your example) doesn't carry normal newsgroups, and doesn't list them in the list pan downloaded when the server was configured or when it's updated, pan won't check for headers in normal newsgroups on the gmane server, only on ones that list those groups as actually being carried. At least that's the way I've observed it working here. I don't have pan set to connect until I tell it to download something, and if I only have it download overviews (incorrectly aka headers) from a group on one server, that's the only connections it opens -- it'll leave connections to the other servers closed until I download headers from groups on those servers. Same with posts; pan only attempts to download them from servers carrying the group in question. (I'm not sure if it goes from overviews only, or if it'll try by msg-ID even if the post isn't listed in the overviews for that server, as long as the group is carried.) -- 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
