Bob Davenport posted on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:27:34 -0500 as excerpted: > Will there ever be the possibility of uploading binaries in Pan? > > As far as I can tell, there is no application that allows binary > uploading under Linux. I know that Agent can be run under wine, been > there, done that. But with the 1680 x 1050 screen resolution that I > use, It is nearly impossible to read the menus. I have also tried to > install powerpost, with stunnel4 in wine also with no joy. > Look at it this way, Pan would be the only news reader under Linux that > would offer binary posting, hopefully using yenc. > > greyebeard<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 > Transitional//EN"> <html> > <head>
[Please take the following in the it's OK to make the mistake, just please don't do it again, way it's intended. I'm NOT trying to scare you away as for all I know you could become a long time regular, helping many, and even if you don't, just the fact that you're a pan user is good! =:^) I'm simply attempting to discourage behavior wildly inconsiderate of others on the list.] Let's see, you just broke at least two very important rules of news/list posting there. 1) You posted in HTML. There's a reason pan doesn't do HTML. Any valid message is just as valid in plain text as HTML, and HTML has long been used by spammers, spyware and malware spreaders to (1) hide elements of their spam to get thru the spamtraps, (2) attempt to monitor who and where the readers are thru HTML web-bugs and the like, and (3) exploit various security holes in clients in ordered to get their stuff run automatically. Even without that, if you use pan for anything significant, you're certainly familiar with how ugly raw HTML looks in it, and some of us use pan to read this list (thru gmane.org's list2news service. Therefore, if you MUST post in HTML elsewhere, please at LEAST refrain from doing so on the pan lists! 2) A long held bit of netiquette for both lists and newsgroups is to read at least a few days of previous posts before one posts themselves, thus preventing one from making the embarrassing mistake of asking a question either covered repeatedly or already active in an ongoing thread. This is preferably by simply following the list/group for awhile before posting in ordered to get a sense of the group, its regulars and its norms, before stepping in with your own posts, but it's also possible to download from a group or check the archive of a list for the last few days or preferably weeks of posts, and thus do in a few minutes what would otherwise take you a few days of following the lists/groups to do. However you found out about the list and signed up for it, it should have been possible to read the archive of past discussion from very close to the same place. You *VERY* *OBVIOUSLY* failed to do this, as there's an active discussion going on about the very topic you bring up. There's little use in me or anyone else repeating everything from that to bring you upto date here, when it's just as easy for you to go back and check the list for yourself. Now, please go do what you SHOULD have done in the first place, catch up on the existing discussion, THEN come back (sans HTML) and become a valid contributor to it in your own right. =:^) If you need a link to the list archives, how about the gmane archives, available in both HTML and news format, from gmane.org, where the list is carried as gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user ? (Be sure and read the information about posting on the gmane website, before trying to post thru gmane, but a number of us regulars use it for both reading the list and posting to it, using pan. =:^) http://gmane.org news.gmane.org -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
