Checkboxes/ticks to disable/enable a server would be an entirely sensible (and obvious) usability feature to add.
I certainly never would have guessed the '0' connection limit thing, if it works that is. Deleting a server also means the entire newsgroup list has to be downloaded again when the server is re-added, since Pan must simply delete the list! And syscntl tweaking could have undesired effects on other connections for other apps and seems a bit crude. So: two feature requests (could these be passed on?): 1. Checkboxes/ticks to disable/enable a server. 2. Confirmation dialog asking if all information about a server (including group list) should be deleted if the server is removed from the server list. If 1. got done that would probably be enough, --- On Tue, 13/1/09, SciFi <sci...@hush.ai> wrote: > From: SciFi <sci...@hush.ai> > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Date: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 2:10 AM > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:41 +0000, Bruce Bowler wrote: > > > > One of the servers that I get articles from is > "dead", (hopefully only > > temporarily). As a result, pan "hangs" for > quite some time when I exit > > pan, waiting for the network connection to fail. Is > there a way to tell > > pan to "not bother" to try and connect to > this server, without deleting > > the server from the list of servers? > > > > Pan 0.132 "waxed in black" on Fedora 9 > > > > Thanks! > > Bruce > > I believe if you dial–down the “Connection Limit” to > 0 (Zero), > that server will not be used at all ‘period’. ;) > > Also there are probably sysctl settings that can shorten > the > time-outs for initiating connections, but those would be > system–wide settings of course. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
