Derek Turner <frde...@jerseymail.co.uk> posted 49454db3.6070...@jerseymail.co.uk, excerpted below, on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:17:23 +0000:
> I'd like an 'ignore all threads started by this author (and mark read)' > can it be done or would this be a new feature? It's one thing ignoring > the group's resident troll but people /will/ keep replying to them. > Also, ignored threads should be marked read by default, if I'm ignoring > a thread I don't want it counting in my unread messages total. The way it works, you can ignore an author (which puts an =-9999 entry in the scorefile for that author), and once you see a thread, you can mark that thread ignored (putting an =-9999 entry in the scorefile for messages with the message-id of the original post in the references header). You can't, however, ignore a thread without first seeing at least one post from it, because pan has no way of knowing what message-id to score against. It doesn't actually think about what it scores and can't put two and two together, as they say. It can only score on something in the scorefile that directly matches something in the message. In theory, it would be possible, but I have a very strong feeling Charles will mark it as target "bluesky", which pretty much means, "Yes, it'd be nice, someday... but don't count on it any year soon... unless you volunteer to code it, that is." (Charles does take patches!) Pan simply has no structure for implementing logic that indirect, so it would be from scratch, and would need well tested as such entirely new code is often quite buggy. As for marking read by default, old-pan had a way to do that called rules. However, it was quite complex to setup and we got a lot of requests for help with it. Charles decided it was too complex to implement that way in new-pan, and so far, it (or the related auto-delete based on score and auto-download based on score) have yet to be implemented in new-pan, tho the feature is planned. Take a look at the archives if you're interested in what we've discussed for the UI, however. I posted a message perhaps a week ago with some detailed info in that regard. However, Charles tends to work on pan in spurts. When he released the rewrite into C++ (starting with 0.90, now at 0.133, and commonly referred to as new-pan), he had nearly weekly betas for about 16 months. However, after that he was understandably rather burnt out, and he took a break. 0.132 was the last of that spurt, release on Aug. 1, 2007. Since then there has been very little work done, altho he did release 0.133 exactly a year later, Aug. 1, this year, rolling up a bunch of patches that had been submitted to bugzilla to let pan compile with updated gcc and glibc and fix a security vulnerability in 0.132. But he has done little except that bare minimum update in over a year now. When he'll get back to actually writing new code, including hopefully the auto-action based on score stuff, nobody knows. =:^( Of course, again, if you have the coding skills, Charles does encourage patches. =:^) -- 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
