Re: [Pan-users] Pan broken on Ubuntu Raring?

2013-05-18 Thread Jim Reiss
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698902 On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:05 PM, walt wrote: > > > On 05/18/2013 12:21 PM, Jim Reiss wrote: > > > I ran into something similar recently when I applied the latest packages > to > > my Debian Testing system. It jus

Re: [Pan-users] Pan broken on Ubuntu Raring?

2013-05-18 Thread Jim Reiss
I ran into something similar recently when I applied the latest packages to my Debian Testing system. It just hangs when trying to open the connection. It appears to already be in the bug tracking system, having to do with SSL connections. I switched to using non-SSL connecting through stunnel4 a

Re: [Pan-users] [0.111] 'Save As' dialog -- a question for Charles

2006-09-05 Thread Jim Reiss
> I totally agree as well. I was just logging in to search the > discussions to see if this had come up yet. I prefer the old > releases' behavior of right-click -> save article attachments, and > away it went. No dialog or anything. Ditto. It's one of the main reasons I keep switching back to

Re: [Pan-users] Priority of downloading headers

2006-08-03 Thread Jim Reiss
> Hi everyone, > > pan now seems to dedicate all available connections to > downloading headers. While this is great when nothing > else is going on, it does interrupt the downloading of > binaries. I personally like to start some items > downloading, and then while that's going on I'll go to >

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Version of Pan to be shipped with Debian Etch

2006-07-19 Thread Jim Reiss
> > Personally, I consider the inability to delete servers about the only real > > showstopper in the betas[2]. > > > > Charles, what would you prefer? > > Not Charles, but IMO it would be /nice/ if both an old and a new version > could be shipped, since the new version is still missing functiona

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: Article Threading in Pan 0.101

2006-07-02 Thread Jim Reiss
> So anyway, you don't get the distinction between old unread and new > messages that old-pan had, but neither Charles nor myself believe that's a > big issue. Read/unread is good enough. Personally I disagree...I think that's true for text newsreading, but when primarily using pan for binary harv

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: Too many connections error

2006-04-07 Thread Jim Reiss
> > For instance Giganews offers 10 concurrent connections and advertises the > > fact > > too. So if I am using 10 connections on a Giganews server I am > > certainly/definitely not an abusive user. > > > > The point is: let me decide, not some program (even if its pan ! :-)) > > > > So I hum

[Pan-users] Version 0.91 impressions

2006-04-04 Thread Jim Reiss
I see on the developer list that the current beta's limited options are meant to be complained about, to get a sense of what was used and what wasn't...at least as far as preferences go. I've just built the 0.91 version and started trying it out, and some initial impressions: It appears that all

Re: [Pan-users] Coming April 1: Pan 0.90

2006-03-27 Thread Jim Reiss
> >> Pan 0.90 is the first beta of a ground-up rewrite of Pan in C++. > > > Dude, you rule! Is there an alpha (CVS) version we can beat on? > > No, not yet. I'll send mail to pan-users and pan-devel when I land it > in CVS... I'm not sure that it wouldn't make more sense to have a new > pack

Re: [Pan-users] pan2 problems on freebsd 6.0

2005-09-11 Thread Jim Reiss
> Is it possible to put up a dialog box to say that you've run out of > memory (or about to run out)? It's not very user-friendly to just die with > no explanation. True, it's not particularly friendly, but it's pretty common in the UNIX/Linux world in the case of memory being exhausted. It would

Re: [Pan-users] pan2 problems on freebsd 6.0

2005-09-10 Thread Jim Reiss
> 1. I have about 12 news groups subscribed. I try to download all of the > headers for these, but after 30 minutes or so I go back to the computer > and pan is > no longer running and I need to start over. Why? A likely cause is running out of memory. Unless you're using the unreleased version