[Pan-users] Re: A multi-server question

2007-03-25 Thread Duncan
nce my initials are jed), as it's convenient, not an already commonly used extension, and instantly identifiable as my personal backup copy. Lately, I've taken to using the date, in SI standard little-endian order (so newsrc-xxx.20070325, if I were doing it today, or perhaps new

[Pan-users] Re: A multi-server question

2007-03-25 Thread Bruce Bowler
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:05:09 +, Bruce Bowler wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:01:05 +, Duncan wrote: > >> Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >> 20070322184345.68946641.bbowler-W/ [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:43:45 -0400: >> >> The idea is that pan on

[Pan-users] Re: A multi-server question

2007-03-25 Thread Bruce Bowler
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:01:05 +, Duncan wrote: > Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:43:45 -0400: > > The idea is that pan only fetches a new or updated group list when you > tell it to. If you don't tell it to, it continues

[Pan-users] Re: Group-preferences: excluding a news server?

2007-03-25 Thread Duncan
walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:15:09 +: > Just one example: alt.binaries.pictures.animals is not carried by the > gmane.org news server, but every time I fire up pan, the gmane.org > server is queried for new headers for it and many

[Pan-users] Re: A multi-server question

2007-03-25 Thread Duncan
Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:43:45 -0400: > I have access to 2 news servers that carry a somewhat overlapping set of > news groups. Server A carries all the groups I want except for 1 and > does a good job of filtering out mos