Robert Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:36:29 +0100:
> That's gnus rather than gnews - I think - there's a news reader for > emacs called gnews but it's not as poular as gnus Thanks. I believe you're right. > gnus-extra-headers should do what you want though it might be rather > slow as the headers you want to score on aren't in the nntp overview That's true, but even if they must be scored after full download (and depending on implementation, full download might not be necessary, only partial), while the download takes time and bandwidth, it's at worst no worse than having to do it manually, which would require full download as well, and downloading and automatically deleting (or marking-read) is still FAR better than having to spend the time doing it manually, and that's not even considering the personal offence one might be avoiding, just the hassle alone. That's why I've been arguing for some time that pan needs something similar. If it can't be taken care of pre-download, it can't be taken care of, but handing post-download is still FAR FAR better than forcing the human to have to deal with what the computer SHOULD be doing, and COULD be doing far easier, if only it were programmed to do so. But I'm not the one writing the code, nor do I have the money to sponsor it, and the guy who IS writing the code prioritized that feature request as "bluesky", effectively "yes, that'd be nice... someday", many years ago, before the implementation of scoring, even. And... given the few that have asked for it over the years, while it's something I'd really use at times, it's obviously not something that high on most users' lists. Still, I can't help but think that while scoring is nice, having real working killfile and watch lists even when the header matched is NOT in the overviews would be far more useful. But again, I'm not writing the code, so I try not to overly criticise those who have, in particular the guy who must be doing /something/ right, as I'm still here using his program, despite what from my view is this gaping hole in effectiveness. Oh, well... <shrug> -- 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
