On Friday, 30 March 2012 11:35 Thufir wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:17:10 -0500, Ima Afrotrap wrote: > > My problem - I add my news server to pan and it of course starts to > > fetch all > > > > the groups on that server. Being on dial-up this can be slow, but in 18 > > years of it I've learned patience. > > Well, don't do that ;) > > Perhaps this is OT, or too much, or, maybe, it's exactly what you need: > leafnode. > > Leafnode will download as a cron job, if you like. You can also set it > to just fetch headers. it's a mini-NNTP server. > > What you could do is to set leafnode to get just headers, then when you > mark an article in pan leafnode will (later) download that article. > > Or, depending on your connection, you could set one or two groups to > download header & body. > > > > HTH, > > Thufir
I've been thinking of giving leafnode a try, but worry that it'll slow my connection down even more than the pathetic ≤30k I already suffer with, lol. Thanks for the tip though, I still might try it if another suggestion from Duncan doesn't work. -- "Fathom the odd hypocrisy that the government wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don't have to prove they are citizens". -unknown Deport Illegal Aliens! _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
