On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, > 19 May 2008 15:03:32 -0400: > > > The latest PAN on my FC6 system is 2.3.1 [...] > > I haven't the foggiest where that version number came from, but it's not > pan's. If it's correct, it's entirely Fedora's version numbering, and I > haven't the foggiest what it corresponds to in "upstream" pan > versioning. I expect, however, that you mistakenly reported some other > app's version number. Whoops, you're right. It's Pan 0.132. I clicked the "about" on the wrong app and wasn't paying attention. > FWIW, pan has never passed the 1.0 milestone so all versions are 0. > something or other. Old pre-rewrite (C source) pan will be versions up > to 0.14.x. New C++ rewrite pan started at version 0.90, with anything > post 0.120 being what I'd call relatively recent, and 0.132 being the > latest. > > So look for a version number 0.13x or possibly 0.12x. That's much more > likely. > > > [...] and I don't see any "mail" > > option other that "reply to author". I suppose I could type in my email > > address for each post to be mailed, but that's not particularly > > convenient. > > Putting pretty much anything of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the email > address box > should pull up your mailer, provided either the package or you configured > an appropriate one. In fact, I never use the menu option for mail at > all. I just use the "f" keyboard shortcut for (newsgroup) followup as I > normally would, then simply delete the newsgroup entry and add something > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever) to the Mail To line. Hitting send then > brings up > my mail client (kmail) with the message opened in its message editor. I > could then mail it wherever, but since we're just talking about saving it > to mail, that's what I do, save it without ever sending. (FWIW, kmail > only lets me save it in draft, but I can and do move it from there to the > folder I wanted to save it to. However, that's a kmail implementation > quirk. Others may let you save it anywhere, directly, while others might > actually force you to mail it to yourself.) > > > Leaving the post in the original newsgroup isn't much of an option for > > me. > > True, it won't be an option for everyone. I'd not be able to use it in > my binary groups, for instance, due to the way I handle them. I'd use > the mail thing for them, which I do anyway if I want to save a particular > message. > > I know people who brag about having a multi-year archive of the various > text groups they follow in Forte Agent, tho, and find it very cool that I > can now do the same thing in pan. =8^) It can be useful to have whole > threads archived from a year or more ago, and it's interesting just to go > back and look at it once in awhile too, remembering what events were > current and being argued at the time... I just save selected messages or threads, but they may be posted on any one of a half dozen different newsgroups dealing with the subject. If I can't move them to a common location they're very difficult to find later when I don't recall where they were originally posted or the exact subject line. Has Charles abandoned further development of PAN? Regards, Charles Sullivan _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
