Re: [Pan-users] VDQ PAN Itself

2025-04-13 Thread Beartooth via Pan-users
On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:31:37 - (UTC), Duncan wrote: > Beartooth via Pan-users posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:36:30 - (UTC) > as excerpted: > >> I'm tweaking two new (to me) PCs -- a job I haven't done in years. >> Both are running Fedora 41 Mate. I've g

[Pan-users] VDQ PAN Itself

2025-04-12 Thread Beartooth via Pan-users
t & caboodle off the old PC onto the new ones? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Trouble getting Pan release 0.160

2024-08-16 Thread Beartooth via Pan-users
to tell it to get anything out of my email, supposing it did get through. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Trouble getting Pan release 0.160

2024-08-13 Thread Beartooth via Pan-users
ng Pan, which I check a couple times a day. But I now find rpm -q pan pan-0.149-4.fc38.x86_64 I asked why on the Fedora list, where I'm assured that the Fedora versions, if they exist, haven't been arriving. Porting anything to Fedora, if that's the term, is way beyo

[Pan-users] What to sneakermail

2020-12-01 Thread Beartooth
gotchas? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Watching a thread

2020-06-07 Thread Beartooth
dit Preferences and scrolled clear down; to the left of Watch thread on all three, the box contains nothing visible. How do I fix this?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

[Pan-users] Pan not launchiing

2020-05-31 Thread Beartooth
On one of my machines, running Fedora 32 fully updated, when I try to launch Pan I get a spinner, which stops after a minute, and then nothing. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

Re: [Pan-users] How unmute?

2020-02-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:07:15 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote: > Pressing 'q' should toggle suppressing quotes on and off. Each time you > press it the setting will change. Oho! Pan is even better than I already thought. Many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Pow

[Pan-users] How unmute?

2020-02-08 Thread Beartooth
that I recall what the newer text is answering.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Pan-users] Highlight a group?

2020-01-23 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:01:21 +, Dave wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:46:23 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> I keep Pan subscribed to two sorts of groups: ones that I check daily, >> and others that I seldom do. >> >> I would like to do in the group list some

[Pan-users] Highlight a group?

2019-12-29 Thread Beartooth
feature request? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Moribund Lists??

2019-01-27 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:02:40 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > Beartooth! Just seeing that name brings back great memories of great > times on Usenet. Which group(s)? Alt.Appalachian, perhaps? Your name is familiar ... Btw, the address I post from is real, and I check it two or

[Pan-users] Moribund Lists??

2019-01-26 Thread Beartooth
Pan's subscriptions somehow? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Pan still crashes

2018-05-31 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 28 May 2018 13:51:32 +0200, Petr Kovar wrote: [...] > The update is on the way: > > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/pan-0.145-1.fc28 > > Let us know if that doesn't fix your problem. Hooray! Bravo! Blessed be the developers!! Today's dnf upgrade of Fedora

Re: [Pan-users] Pan still crashes

2018-05-28 Thread Beartooth
On 05/28/2018 07:51 AM, Petr Kovar wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2018 12:11:27 -0400 Beartooth wrote: [] Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general Pan on F28, which I update at least once daily, still crashes instead of launching. The update is on the way

[Pan-users] Pan for Fedora 28??

2018-05-08 Thread Beartooth
Pan is always on the first list of things I make sure I have after any new install, but on F28 it tries and crashes. (I'm running Mate, in case that matters. Clue, please? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of whe

Re: [Pan-users] UNmute HOW?? SOLVED

2018-04-26 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:25:51 +, Dave wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:02:35 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> I found "mute quoted text" in the preferences, and removed whatever was >> in the box. I closed and re-opened Pan two or three times. >> Pan went merrily

[Pan-users] UNmute HOW??

2018-04-19 Thread Beartooth
I found "mute quoted text" in the preferences, and removed whatever was in the box. I closed and re-opened Pan two or three times. Pan went merrily on muting it. What do I do to get all text in each article? ___ Pan-users mailing lis

[Pan-users] How UNmute?

2017-12-07 Thread Beartooth
Pan gives me "> [quoted text muted]" every chance it gets. I don't want that. I went to Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts, and found "Mute quoted text" with a q in the box to its left. Deleting that didn't work, even after closing & re-opening Pan. I don't see anything u

Re: [Pan-users] HTML

2017-06-10 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:25:10 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:57:16 + as excerpted: > >> I have my email set not to display html messages. Can I do that with >> Pan? How? > > Short non-technical answer: > > Not simply. But

[Pan-users] HTML

2017-06-07 Thread Beartooth
I have my email set not to display html messages. Can I do that with Pan? How? ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Desist from Muting SOLVED

2016-08-22 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 02:06:30 +, Duncan wrote: > Joe Zeff posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2016 11:02:34 -0700 as excerpted: > >> On 08/21/2016 10:19 AM, Beartooth wrote: >>> Is there no way to turn it off once and for all? >> >> Make sure it's turned off, the

Re: [Pan-users] Desist from Muting -- How??

2016-08-21 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:29:00 +, Duncan wrote: > Pan's main window... as opposed to the compose article window, or the > tasks monitor window, or the log window, or the pan preferences or > server settings dialog windows... > > And that main pan window should be in focus -- the one your keyboa

Re: [Pan-users] Desist from Muting -- How??

2016-08-20 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:45:53 +, Duncan wrote: >> Do you mean in the shortcuts? >> >> The default is 'q'. I don't understand "in the shortcuts" -- what shortcuts? > ... and the function is a toggle, so with muting on and default keyboard > accelerators in place, hitting 'q' once wit

[Pan-users] Desist from Muting -- How??

2016-08-15 Thread Beartooth
I found "mute quoted text" in the Preferences -- and the box before it is empty. I want Pan to stop muting. What do I type in? I can think of scads of possibilities to try; but surely someone here knows offhand. Clue, please!

[Pan-users] posting via gmane??

2014-09-24 Thread Beartooth
listowner who couldn't be bothered, once long ago and far away.) And do my drafts automatically get preserved somewhere? Istr also that at one time they didn't, alas! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of w

Re: [Pan-users] Resume draft?? FOUND -- with a mea culpa

2014-02-13 Thread Beartooth
raft Icon Button was staring > right at me. Are yours actually labeled by default?? Or is there perchance an option somewhere to make labels the default? That button is of course staring at me, too; I just didn't think to look there. I'll set the labels, if I can, lest I fo

Re: [Pan-users] Resume draft??

2014-02-13 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:55:23 +, Duncan wrote: > George Czerw posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:24:40 -0500 as excerpted: > >> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 06:47:26 PM Beartooth wrote: >>> My apologies in advance: this one has got to be a FAQ. Having started >>> a

[Pan-users] Resume draft??

2014-02-11 Thread Beartooth
My apologies in advance: this one has got to be a FAQ. Having started a post, then saved it as a draft, how in the blinking blue blazes do I get back to it and take up where I left off?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very

Re: [Pan-users] binary for CentOS 6.4??

2014-02-11 Thread Beartooth
://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pan&system=dag > > You can plug in your arch as appropriate and do an even more limited > search. Like a charm. Many, many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious

Re: [Pan-users] binary for CentOS 6.4??

2014-02-09 Thread Beartooth
ere using Pan in CentOS, please tell what release and from where. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http

[Pan-users] binary for CentOS 6.4??

2014-02-06 Thread Beartooth
There seems not to be an rpm for CentOS in the canonical places, including EPEL. I'm hoping there might be one for Fedora, say, that someone uses and finds not conducive to dependency hell. Is there such of a beast? ___ Pan-users mailing li

Re: [Pan-users] killfile troll in watched thread??

2013-12-05 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:51:02 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:53:36 + as excerpted: > >> On another list, I have concluded that a certain poster (call him P) is >> posting unmitigated trollery to a thread I value (and have told Pan to >&g

[Pan-users] killfile troll in watched thread??

2013-12-04 Thread Beartooth
mount to a declaration of inability, even though I am asking it to score an author this time. Is Pan confused, or am I? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea w

Re: [Pan-users] Can I get Pan for CentOS 6.4 SOLVED

2013-11-06 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:46:39 +, Duncan wrote: [] >>> If you're willing to go with something earlier than pan-0.139 in >>> ordered to get more directly RHEL/CentOS compatible packages, I see >>> 0.135, 0.134 and 0.133 listed, DAG packages for Red Hat Linux el6, >>> which should be ce

Re: [Pan-users] Can I get Pan for CentOS 6.4

2013-11-02 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 04:50:41 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:32:55 + as excerpted: > >> I've just installed 6.4 on an old T30 ThinkPad, and I'm in the midst of >> setting it up. Can I get an rpm of Pan somewhere? [] &g

[Pan-users] Can I get Pan for CentOS 6.4

2013-10-31 Thread Beartooth
I've just installed 6.4 on an old T30 ThinkPad, and I'm in the midst of setting it up. Can I get an rpm of Pan somewhere? I don't see it on epel (if I've got that installed properly; it's been a long time ...), nor on pan.rebelbase.com. -- Beartooth

Re: [Pan-users] I goofed, royally

2013-09-02 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 11:39:32 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:09:29 + as excerpted: [] >> What am I doing wrong? Do I need to log out and back in? Reboot? >> Or what?? > > Restarting pan should be enough, if it was a scorefile pr

[Pan-users] I goofed, royally

2013-09-01 Thread Beartooth
Message-ID: webtv What happened was to score *all* posts to -. I went back in haste, deleted the subfolder, and restarted Pan. Alas, the mismarked posts are still as before. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to log out and back in? Reboot? Or what?? -- Beartooth

Re: [Pan-users] button to un/mute quoted text

2013-09-01 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:46:33 +, Bob wrote: [] > Gahd, he must be lazy.. Or perhaps have a withered arm? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up

Re: [Pan-users] Latest pan 100% CPU usage

2013-04-23 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:18:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/21/2013 06:15 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> Fedora 7 > > Please tell me that's a typo! It is indeed. Sorry I didn't catch it. Should be 17. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless P

[Pan-users] Pruning

2013-04-21 Thread Beartooth
My .pan2 is running close to 400 MB, and I'm sure most of it is an aged accretion of cruft; I'd like to edit it down to somewhere between a tenth and a quarter of that. Is there an easy way, that will do no harm? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless

Re: [Pan-users] Latest pan 100% CPU usage

2013-04-21 Thread Beartooth
oring CPU, but both have also been seeming slow in general. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] line length

2013-03-06 Thread Beartooth
once and for all, to wrap lines after some reasonable length? I can keep hitting w, but it would be nice not to have to ... -- Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line Viruses, trojans, and spyware, Oh My! ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongn

[Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Beartooth
My Event Log keeps geting messages like these : Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" Permission denied The machine it happens on, currently running CentOS6, is one which g

Re: [Pan-users] UIP where?

2012-11-19 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:53:27 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:53:46 + as excerpted: > >> The Usenet Improvement Project offers a filter for Pan >> >> [*] >> Score:: =- Message-ID: googlegroups Message-ID: webtv >> >

[Pan-users] UIP where?

2012-11-18 Thread Beartooth
The Usenet Improvement Project offers a filter for Pan [*] Score:: =- Message-ID: googlegroups Message-ID: webtv but it doesn't say where to put it. I don't see a canonical-looking place it go?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Curmudgeon On Line The hurrier I go, the behi

Re: [Pan-users] What went wrong?

2012-06-03 Thread Beartooth
ink I've even seen 0.135; so maybe the problem snuck back somehow?? > And if that's the problem, thanks. You'd be the first to report it here > anyway, and knowing that a bad version shipped with a distro helps if we > get any further reports of the problem. -- Bearto

[Pan-users] What went wrong?

2012-06-02 Thread Beartooth
ed various scores, but no errors. If I look at the task list, and tell it to go online, it gives me error 481, whatever that is. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea w

Re: [Pan-users] Can I format displays?

2012-02-01 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:04:53 -0800, Jeff Berman wrote: >>From: Beartooth To: >>pan-users@nongnu.org Sent: Tuesday, January >>31, 2012 12:09 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Can I format displays? >> >>Is there a way to tell Pan I want it to wrap lines of text in what I &

[Pan-users] Can I format displays?

2012-01-31 Thread Beartooth
ere is one small fly in this ointment. Often a whole paragraph will display as a single very long line. I can deal with -- id est, change -- that a couple of ways in email. Is there a way to tell Pan I want it to wrap lines of text in what I read, as it does when I write? -- Beartooth Staffwright,

Re: [Pan-users] How to fix "Unable to save ... Permission denied"?

2012-01-29 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:17:25 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:58:17 + as excerpted: >> Uurrr! I spoke too soon. Even from servers like news.grc.com >> and news.opera.no I get the miserable giganews whine. Should Pan really >> be goi

Re: [Pan-users] How to fix "Unable to save ... Permission denied"?

2012-01-27 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:42:59 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:33 +, Duncan wrote: > >> Those paths are almost certainly to be found in what is now >> /home/bttth/.pan2/servers.xml (but was previously btth...) >> >> That's an xml-based

Re: [Pan-users] How to fix "Unable to save ... Permission denied"?

2012-01-27 Thread Beartooth
hould be fine if you simply search and replace for > btth, adding the extra "t" to make it bttth, and make no other changes. That got most of it, thanks! I think I messed up my Giganews userid; but Gmane seems to be working again, and that's the main thing. -- Beartooth

[Pan-users] How to fix "Unable to save ... Permission denied"?

2012-01-26 Thread Beartooth
rticles for "alt.autos.toyota.trucks" in 0.0 seconds (135379 per second) [... and so on, ad nauseam] I've changed btth to bttth everywhere I can find in Pan, but it's still doing it. Where is the instance I have to change?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, N

[Pan-users] Munging?

2011-07-28 Thread Beartooth
My posting profiles all require an email address. Can it a/o should it be a munged one -- say with space-paren-at-paren-space instead of @? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is

Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA

2011-07-09 Thread Beartooth
eree] There's a thread there about wanting a new newsreader, containing forty posts, dating from Tuesday to today. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

Re: [Pan-users] VDQ Re: Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-09 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:06:25 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:06:07 + as excerpted: [] >> What will the effect be on how Pan works, who adopts or emulates it, or >> whatever? (If Pan Triumphant will emulate the horseshoe nail by maki

Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA

2011-07-07 Thread Beartooth
efault browser. There's a lot it won't do, by design; but it's fast, and it usually gives you enough of a look to decide if you want to paste a URL into some other browser. Maybe Pan could default to using Dillo, and give the user an option to install it if need be, or to change t

Re: [Pan-users] GNKSA

2011-07-05 Thread Beartooth
the groups themselves. We might want to try to optimize Pan, not for usenet in general, but for the relatively few groups of groups. Am I making sense? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___

Re: [Pan-users] VDQ Re: Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-05 Thread Beartooth
Try poking around both that, and the same with the ~en/ removed -- and email me [beartooth (at) comcast (dot) net] if the German gives you any trouble. Germanistik is one of the things I'm retired from. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!)

[Pan-users] VDQ Re: Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-04 Thread Beartooth
sts' willingness to join Gmane, I'll vote enthusiastically for whichever one does it. So will a lot of the Baby Boomers now entering retirement, unless I miss my guess; they've been treading on my heels since hector was a pup. -- Beartooth Staffwr

Re: [Pan-users] Dependency hell with Pan on SL

2011-06-28 Thread Beartooth
IF! Absent-mindedness increases with age.), the one I have is from pbone. Is there one for 0.135 somewhere? Commands like 'make' are beyond any savvy I have to recover from if anything were to go wrong. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precio

Re: [Pan-users] Dependency hell with Pan on SL

2011-06-28 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:55:41 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:22:48 + as excerpted: > >> I'm running Scientific Linux 6 on one machine, and getting this : >> >> package gmime-2.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686 (which is newer than >> gm

[Pan-users] Dependency hell with Pan on SL

2011-06-27 Thread Beartooth
.so.2 is needed by pan-1:0.134-1.el6.rf.i686 [root@Hbsk btth]# What can I do?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-

[Pan-users] Re: Can I tell Pan, with one command, to watch many threads?

2010-12-25 Thread Beartooth
hatever. And I don't see what most of the (doubtless highly practical) elements you can score by are good for. I recall talk of a FAQ, and there is a thread from 2007, but no link from the Pan home page to a manual -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Pow

[Pan-users] Can I tell Pan, with one command, to watch many threads?

2010-12-21 Thread Beartooth
able to tell a given group's preferences to watch all of the treads I start, or all I participate in?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing

[Pan-users] Weird pan/metacity messages

2010-12-09 Thread Beartooth
ssage for 0x4a00023 (Video -- W); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x183 (y...@); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. What goeth on here?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck

[Pan-users] Copy of my own post?

2010-11-20 Thread Beartooth
the trouble of crafting it all over again. I did not, unfortunately, interrupt the job and save it as a draft at any point. Would pan-0.133-4.fc12.i686 by any happy chance have kept a copy on my machine anywhere? (I have it set to use gedit.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not

[Pan-users] gmane fedora list problems

2009-11-02 Thread Beartooth
s nor any replies show up. I don't see anything on gmane.discuss that looks relevant, afaict. What could be wrong?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea w

[Pan-users] What have I done??

2009-10-15 Thread Beartooth
Trying to plonk an author, I clicked on "isn't" and must, I suppose, have chosen the wrong "isn't" -- so that now all authors *but* the obnoxious one are ignored. Anyway, the group shows only the one author I don't want. Where and

[Pan-users] Re: 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-29 Thread Beartooth
et by big providers (including Verizon and Comcast, iirc) for utterly non-technical reasons. But one big bright spot (I hope and think) is very familiar to many here : Gmane. There are a bunch of lists I can't do without, and wouldn't be able to benefit from, were it not for Pa

[Pan-users] Re: 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-29 Thread Beartooth
t Pan still has some life left in it. Again there is a case that looks, at least to me, to be parallel -- the history of the browser Dillo. And again, some here may have far more detailed grasp of it than I. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power Use

[Pan-users] Re: Anybody getting va.forsale??

2009-08-11 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:49:58 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-10 13:15, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:46:30 -0700, Travis wrote: >> >>> - Original Message ----- >>> From: "Beartooth" >>> To: Sent: Monday, >>>

[Pan-users] Re: Anybody getting va.forsale??

2009-08-10 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:46:30 -0700, Travis wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Beartooth" > To: Sent: Monday, > August 10, 2009 09:38 AM Subject: [Pan-users] Anybody getting > va.forsale?? > > > >> I haven't seen a single post on va.f

[Pan-users] Anybody getting va.forsale??

2009-08-10 Thread Beartooth
I haven't seen a single post on va.forsale in months. Just now I tried telling my newsreader to get all headers; it churned very briefly -- and got nothing. Could this be some bad setting in Pan?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I

[Pan-users] Re: A couple of Pan question

2009-08-04 Thread Beartooth
nread > status. You can always open your post, right click, and tell it "Watch Thread." -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailin

[Pan-users] Bare white header panel

2009-07-10 Thread Beartooth
va.forsale shows as having 255 threads, but when I click on it, the whole header panel is blank white. What could be wrong? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is

[Pan-users] Re: "No recipients" baloney

2009-07-01 Thread Beartooth
getting silly, > so it's /definitely/ not the time to go trying to fix it now! Been there, done that; go have a good stiff drink and a nice dinner, and then sit down to a good novel -- maybe a Maigret ... I trust you'll post here if/when you get any result. I

[Pan-users] "No recipients" baloney

2009-07-01 Thread Beartooth
sefeathers. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Re: Speaking of servers

2009-05-28 Thread Beartooth
rella.org, commonly called motzarella (note spelling) has been mentioned here several times recently. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-us

[Pan-users] Speaking of servers

2009-05-26 Thread Beartooth
It may be my imagination, but in recent weeks (ever since I signed up with motzarella) I seem to be getting a lot more error reports in the events log; and when I look, most if not all are from Motzarella. Does this mean what I suspect? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo

[Pan-users] Re: posting server according to the group one?

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
I'm not at all sure I understand -- but I have a case I think relevant. I have accounts at motzarella (free) and at giganews (charges money). When I post to a group that both carry, isn't it precisely my choice of server that determines whether i get charged for it?? -- Beart

[Pan-users] Re: posting server according to the group one?

2009-05-25 Thread Beartooth
;ve been getting lots of irritating cautions saying the server didn't carry the group, and having to deal with them piecemeal. It turned out almost all were set to Gmane, for some reason. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Conve

[Pan-users] Options, multiplicity of

2009-05-07 Thread Beartooth
ded it and found people here who knew things; but until that arose, I had gone on happily using Pan for years, in blissful ignorance of one whole complexity. Therefore I hope, when he next gets to Pan again, Charles will exercise his talent in setting defaults, and trust it when in doubt. -

[Pan-users] Re: Odd error messages

2009-05-03 Thread Beartooth
ne.linux.ubuntu.user. One of Pan's greatest benefits is enabling you to surf big lists like that ubuntu one (or, much more often in my case, the fedora one) instead of having to plow through digests or index lists (if they even run Listserv and have the latter). -- Beartooth Staffwright, P

[Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

2009-04-18 Thread Beartooth
ider that I had did its news by subcontract, so that I was using giganews at second hand. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nong

[Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

2009-04-17 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:17 +, Duncan wrote: > David Shochat posted > gs8e2p$a3...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 > 23:13:29 +: > >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:06:46 +, Beartooth wrote: >> >>> I signed up for an individual gigan

[Pan-users] giganews trouble

2009-04-16 Thread Beartooth
"alt.appalachian". If the group name is correct, switch profiles in the "From:" line or edit the profile with "Edit|Manage Posting Profiles". If I then tell that to post anyway, I get 441 No valid newsgroups in "alt.appalachian"

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-04-01 Thread Beartooth
Oho! And also Aha! I have now, to the ones that don't seem to have died (such as the newusers one; what is, or was, nocems?); many thanks! Also, I see by your next post that you have managed to make the webgibberish stop; please add my heartfelt thanks to Duncan's.

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-29 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:08:20 -0400, George Czerw wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009 11:56:12 Beartooth wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:46:45 -0700, Alan Meyer wrote: >> [...] >> >> > It sure looks like Motzarella dropped the group. Pan has cached the >&

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-27 Thread Beartooth
he > list. Nope. Rec.guns, rec.hunting, va.forsale, and va.general are all still there. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@non

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:38:50 +, Beartooth wrote: [...] > Any bets I'm doing something the nice people at motzarella hadn't > thought of? I just tried to post to rec.guns, asking the location of the FAQ -- there used to be a routine message with its locat

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-26 Thread Beartooth
So I have twenty more copies, all in a row, of that error. And I'm pretty sure rec.guns doesn't tolerate binaries; I've certainly never seen any there. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. ___

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:51 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:16:23 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> On 03/26/2009 Beartooth wrote: >>> Maybe I don't know what a binary is. All I ever normally do is >>> read text. I avoid images,

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

2009-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:16:23 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/26/2009 Beartooth wrote: >> Maybe I don't know what a binary is. All I ever normally do is >> read text. I avoid images, especially moving images, and sound. > > Binaries are non-text files, such as

[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless

2009-03-26 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:51 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted > pan.2009.03.25.17.24...@comcast.net, > excerpted below, on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:24:16 +: >> Using motzarella, I've been getting quite a few posts unreadable >> because, Pan says, they&#x

[Pan-users] server priority and completeless

2009-03-25 Thread Beartooth
mplete post on one (higher priority) server, and a complete one on another (lower priority) one, will it find and grab the complete one? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

[Pan-users] Re: Newsfeed

2009-03-23 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:23:16 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted > pan.2009.03.22.18.12...@comcast.net, > excerpted below, on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:34 +: [...] > Sounds like you no longer have authorization to use that server -- or at > least the swva server is

[Pan-users] Re: ARG Re: Newsfeed

2009-03-23 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:39:41 +, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted > pan.2009.03.22.20.37...@comcast.net, > excerpted below, on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:37:17 +: > >>> Went there, did that -- three or four times, alas! (I forgot >> about Gmane emailing me, beca

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