On Sunday 30 January 2011, Duncan wrote: > Juan Wei posted on Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:48:08 -0500 as excerpted: > > Duncan has written on 1/29/2011 3:26 AM: > >> Juan Wei posted on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:19:23 -0500 as excerpted: > >> > I have the latest pan on Ubuntu 10.10 but it does not have a > >> > "Filters" thingy on the menu line. > >> > > >> > Don't I need that to make a "kill" file or is there another way? > >> > > >> > Thanks. > >> > >> Filters aren't on the menu line, and indeed, don't exist per se. > > > > I got that impression from http://pan.rebelbase.com/screenshots/read.png > > where "Filter" is displayed between "View" and "Go". > > That's the old and no longer supported (tho like kde3, some still use it) > pan 0.14 vintage series, from... 2004 or so and written in C. A couple > years later, on IIRC April 1 (April Fool's day, we thought it might be a > joke at first), 2006, Charles released 0.90, the first of the C++ rewrite > series that continued with nearly weekly betas for over a year, before he > went into inactive mode once again (he always did seem to work in fits and > spurts, going great guns for a few months, then nothing for six months or > more), this time pretty much permanently, tho he did release one update, > his last release, 0.133, on Aug 1, 2008 (one security fix and several > updates to build against new library versions and with new gcc, one year > to the day after 0.132). > > >> What pan > >> uses instead of filters is "scoring". Where filters are binary > >> (killed/ normal, tho pan uses ignored in place of killed) or trinary > >> (ignored/ normal/watched), scoring is much more flexible, allowing a > >> range of values with incremental results such that any individual score > >> might not result in an ignored or watched post, but the sum of several > >> scores may still result in that. > > > > Thanks for the detailed explanation of scoring. As my wife would say, > > TMI. All I'm looking for a way to prevent posts from certain individuals > > from appearing in the list of articles. > > > > Can you help me with that? > > I did. Reread the last post, paying attention to the information on the > "ignore" functionality, really, -9999 (or below) scoring, as that's the > way pan implements kill-filing. > > But very briefly restating: The "ignore author" option on the article menu > is what you are looking for, altho whether "ignored" posts are actually > hidden depends on the settings in the view, header-pane, sub-menu, as I > explained in the previous post.
Duncan, You know this lack of a manual for Pan? If we complied all of your posts here in the right order with a little subtle editing, we'd pretty much have a manual by now. Now, I'm not saying you're gobby or anything, just sayin' LOL Seriously though, your long and detailed replies are appreciated :-) -- Dave _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
