Re: [Pan-users] Pan Wishlist

[gaw zay]

On 8 Jul 2002, Rob Hughes wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 07:45, Mathias Koerber wrote:
>
> Let me add a couple of things. I'm desperately looking around for a
> reader that actually works for binary groups under linux. All pan needs
> to be perfect is:
>
> 1) Pull all servers into groups, so that a given group is checked on all
> servers for an article, or parts of an article.

I'm thinking this will be a while off, been requested before, I don't
think it's trivial to implement, and probably not at the top of the to do
list since most people don't have multiple servers they can get binaries
from.

> 2) Create "virtual" groups, such a mp3s, which might consist of
> alt.binaries.mp3s.2000, alt.binaries.2000.mp3, etc.

already been mentioned 5000 times, in the form of a "folder" in the groups
pane. coming at some point.


> 3) Decode to a directory named for the above virtual group.

hm there is the feature that allows you to save to a subdirectory of the
group name but for a user defined "group folder" you'd have to do that
manually right now, not a bad idea though.


brian
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