Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:04:01 +0100:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007 06:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Thufir > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Thufir, > >> >> headers, but the body and attachments? >> > Currently, no. If you absolutely must have that feature, you'll have >> > to install "old-style" Pan 0.14.x >> Oh, and it's *so* close to supplanting leafnode for me :( > > Even with an always on connection, I prefer to d/l the message bodies at > the same time as the headers. I'm fairly sure it's coming, but IIRC, > it's on the post 1.x release to-do list. Agreed, it's on the active todo list, but for post-1.0. What I do for binaries (for text I download on demand) is download overviews (what everybody calls headers, even tho that's not really correct), go thru and delete what I know I don't want right away or with just a sample download or two, then set everything else to download to cache (which I've set by hand in preferences.xml to 12 gigs, so pan doesn't start erasing stuff before I've had a chance to look at it!), while I go off and do something else, visit the text groups or sort thru a previously downloaded group or whatever. Then when everything's in cache, I come back and decide what I want to keep and save it off accordingly, deleting what I don't want to keep, as well as stuff I've already saved. That works well here, but using a local news server such as leafnode is the other alternative, used by many. The auto-download feature is currently slated to be added along with other automatic actions for scored articles. The options will probably include auto-delete and auto-mark-read checkboxes for each of ignored and negative scored articles, and auto-download checkboxes for each of zero scored (normal, no score applies, or +/- scores cancel out), medium (1-4999), high (5000-9998), and watched (9999+) scored articles. This was it seems the main thing old-pan's rules were used for, but setting it up was rather more complex than Charles would have liked, and I agree, the suggested new interface checkboxes sound simpler. I'd just be nice to actually have them, but I suppose as they say, patience is a virtue, and I do understand the need to draw a line and limit new features so what's there can be stabilized. Meanwhile, one of the above solutions, either using the two-stage download to cache and process from there, or using leafnode or another external but local news server, should work. -- 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
