On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:55:56 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > On 01/22/2017 06:35 PM, Dave wrote: >> 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. >> > Well, I think your assumption is probably correct. Sorry for the bad > advice. > No worries, I've not tried it yet. I guess I won't now :-)
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