On 17/12/12 05:06, Duncan wrote:
What /might/ be a problem, however, is the "pseudo-newsgroup" setup old- pan used for its saved and sent messages folders. There's nothing like that in new-pan. Instead, messages are saved in-place in the newsgroup,
There is no "might" about it. This is absolutely a problem. Just because a post is sent doesn't mean that it is received. I have lost multiple large posts, with no way to recreate them, because I've sent a post but it was never received by the newserver, or dropped, or *something* went wrong and it was lost. NNTP is not a guaranteed delivery service. It has even fewer guarantees than email: with email, at least, you can expect a bounce message if your post is not deliverable. (Even that is not a guarantee though.) This is one area that Pan is, frankly, stuck badly in the 1980s. It truly is shocking that Pan keeps no record of sent posts. Even more shocking is that Pan's handling of the Save Draft command is stuck back in the 1970s: I have lost more than one draft because I have accidentally entered the file name of an existing draft when saving, and Pan *didn't* ask for confirmation before overwriting the file. (Disclaimer: I am using Pan 0.133 because that is the version offered by my distro's package management system.) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
