> The key to understanding what's going on here is to realize that while > old-pan /sort/ of supported newsrc files, that wasn't its main record of > things -- it had its own database format and basically only exported to > newsrc files so it could work cooperatively with other news clients. > Thus, it's seeing the data in the newsrcs and using that to update its > own database, then exporting the combined information back to the newsrc > files when it is closed. > > What you have to do is unsubscribe from the groups in question from > inside pan, then immediately close pan, and it should take. You can then > open the newsrcs manually (or using tin may work as well, I don't use it > so don't know) and delete the old group information if desired. If you > do so you should probably do the same thing to the pan record, or, while > it shouldn't resubscribe them, it'll probably put the record back of the > messages you had read when it closes again. > > I know you have reasons to use old-pan instead of new-pan and I respect > that. However, it is worth pointing out that new-pan uses the newsrc > files directly -- tho it stores other non-newsrc info in other files > too. Since new-pan uses the newsrc files directly, it shouldn't have > this issue. The one caveat there would be if you have multiple servers, > since the newsrc format apparently has no provision for that. Thus, > new-pan uses multiple newsrcs, identified by number rather than server > name, and if you were to try sharing them, you'd need to ensure that you > configured each client (by hand) to point at the same newsrc for the same > server, or there'd be chaos.
Oh wow. Pan has ~/.newsrc support now? I remember v0.106 didn't have it from my old post in 2006: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-08/msg00042.html ... Has Pan fixed issues like highlighing newsgroups and download new headers as shown in my old 2006 posts: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-08/msg00048.html ? Thank you in advance. :) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
