Ron Johnson posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:49:53 -0500 as excerpted: > The GUI interface is great, but not so optimized for downloading the > headers of big groups. > > So, I request a separate program pan-get-headers (which is part of the > pan2 source tree and thus gets built when you run "make") that uses the > already-existing pan nntp functions. > > It would work something like: > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --all > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --new > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --days=nn > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --latest=nn
While I haven't looked at it in awhile nor really ever used it myself, pan already has a "gui-less" CLI interface, that specifically /does/ have header-fetch functionality. Try running pan --help in a terminal window and see if it has what you're looking for. A quick-look says it fetches new headers (no options for the others). Good for a continuing cronjob or the like, to keep up with a group so when running pan normally it's already up2date, but not so much for initializing a big group. Unfortunately, there's presently no mechanism for getting the new headers, scoring, then caching full content for messages scoring at/above a particular category (probably watched by default), all automatically, based on CLI options. It's a feature that has long been requested... Imagine being able to cron-job all that, so you can load up pan and have everything already cached, ready to be examined and saved or deleted. =:^) Of course, that would require setting the cache size rather larger than the default 10 MB, something that's only possible by direct-editing the config file at this point, as Charles thought a cache-size setting was too complex for normal users (resulting in the gnomification/dumbification of pan with the rewrite, losing that option from the GUI), but setting a huge cache (12 gig dedicated partition for my binary pan instance), downloading headers, doing an initial delete of what I /knew/ I didn't want, then downloading to cache and doing something else while it did so, then coming back to sort thru what's downloaded when I didn't have to wait for it, is how I've /always/ worked with binaries. If that could be automated via CLI options and cronjob so all I had to do was sort thru the pre-cached messages, I'd be a happy camper indeed. =:^) Unfortunately... =:^( -- 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
