Jim Henderson posted on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:30:12 +0000 as excerpted: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:10:09 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >> So if you test this, please post your results. =:^) > > Thanks for the detailed answer, Duncan - some of that I found with some > experimentation, but ultimately, yeah, it didn't work the way I'd hoped > it would. I might have to try using an intermediate server (something > like the caching NNTP server that I can't remember the name of at the > moment) where I can set up the overview to use it.
Leafnode? Meanwhile, just to confirm, arbitrary header scoring did work, but only after downloading the messages and possibly manually triggering a rescore, correct? Did you have to manually trigger the rescore, or did pan automatically rescore after it downloaded the messages? And what size cache are you using? I predicted that at least if you had to manually rescore, you'd need to have a cache large enough to keep the set of messages you wanted to rescore, so pan would have the information at hand when you told it to rescore. I normally work with a multi-GiB cache and for binaries at least, after deleting the obvious no-interest posts I download the remaining messages to cache for further processing, so that wouldn't be a big deal here, but for people who keep the default 10 MiB cache and routinely download and save in one go instead of working from cache, it'd be a big change. Meanwhile (2), your idea of using a caching news server triggered another question I don't have an answer to. Running a local caching news server and having pan access it is a setup most people won't have, but it does have some interesting implications, the most obvious of which is that pan could operate with little to no cache of its own (I'd probably run a small pan cache and put it in tmpfs, so as not to hit permanent storage at all in that case), since the entire server pan's accessing would be local. But your comments triggered this thought process and question: With control of the server as well, and thus its overview policy, you could of course put whatever headers your interested in, in the overview. Can pan's arbitrary header scoring use such non-default- overview-header content if it's available in the overview, or must it still cache the post in ordered to score on those headers, because it doesn't expect them in the overview and thus simply doesn't check for them at that point? Interesting question. The answer really doesn't matter to most, but it would to those with servers that have a relatively liberal overview policy, putting many headers in it, as well as to those who do run their own server, either remote or local, and thus control what's in the overview. -- 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
