On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:03:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > On 01/22/2017 12:26 PM, Dave wrote: >> Is there any way at all to get Pan to filter and DELETE posts on sight? >> >> There's a binaries group currently being swamped by very, very >> large numbers of post. So many that Pan and the OS is not >> reacting well to a group with a couple million posts in it. ie all >> RAM used up (almost never happens on my 8GB PC) and swap >> getting thrashed to the extent that the PC almost grinds to a >> halt despite there being plenty of CPU power spare. >> >> On at least one occasion, the memory/page management >> choked and crashed/reboot the PC and that's a very unusual >> thing to happen on FreeBSD! >> > I feel your pain! You can set a filter to ignore the user, but it won't > stop the downloads. > > Here's what I'm doing, > > [1] In the group pane, right click the group name > > [2] Select "Get latest N headers" and enter 100000 > > [3] Select and delete all the bad headers > > [4] Download and/or cleanup > > [5] Repeat > > I've also tried using the free usenet browser from "newshosting.com". > It does a good job of filtering junk posts, so you never see them. But I > prefer Pan.
I always assumed that "Get latest N headers" would do just that and I'd then miss the preceding headers. I shall try that. -- Climate Change may be raising the sea levels, but the gene pool seems to be drying up. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
