Re: [Pan-users] feature request -- cron-invokable tasks

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

> > combined with the search/download rules, this could be a very
> > powerful tool.
> 
>       Search on freshmeat.net for "suck" -- this is an automated news 
> downloader which supports killfiles, elimination of duplicates, and 
> more.  If you want to grab (news|binaries) via your crontab, I'd 
> suggest using a tool which is already designed for that purpose.  :)
>       I've used it before, but that was years ago... there may be something 
> better now, but it was quite good back then!

I looked at it years ago; before I started using pan. here's why I'd rather
see a way to automate certain tasks in pan:

1. I want to do more than just download binaries. other possibilities
include:
        a. update groups list once a week
        b. download headers/bodies each night, so they're waiting for me
        when I wake up in the morning.
        c. other things I haven't thought of, but someone more creative than
        me will figure out. :) (that's the whole principle of UNIX, right?)

2. suck doesn't have an interactive browser. I often want to read the
associated comments and maybe reply to the author. yes, I could conceivably
track the post down with pan, and then read/reply; but that's a lot more
work than just looking for the highlighted subject line (I highlight posts
that I download attachments from).

3. suck didn't work, last time I tried. :) (which was admittedly 2+ years
ago, and I've learned a lot since then).

Carl Soderstrom.
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com