Re: [Pan-users] ANN: 0.14.0.93 "He's Upstairs, Helping Porcelain Make the Bed"

[Bobby D. Bryant]

Sorry for the wrapping below... my e-mail client doesn't manage quote 
wrapping as well as Pan does!


On 2003.07.30 15:28, Charles Kerr wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:48:53PM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
>
> > 1) If you are reading one article and use MB-3 to select (but not 
> load)
> > another one in the header pane, the body pane is erased.  This is 
> not
> > good because it means you can't start a new sort in the header pane
> > while reading the currently loaded article.
>
> Go ahead and file a bugzilla ticked on this.  I think this is a
> side-effect of #118152, which clears the body pane when the user
> switches groups.

Done.



> > 2) Formerly if you selected one of your own posts, unthreaded, and
> > sorted by author, you could find all your posts that had new or
> unread
> > replies anywhere under them in their thread by skimming down the
> list
> > to find those with the fonts indicating "new" or "unread".   Now
> those
> > fonts are only used if your actual post is new or unread, so I'm
> once
> > more left trying to figure out how to find live subthreads.
> >
> > Notice that if you thread the header pane and collapse the threads,
> the
> > top-level post in a thread still gets the font telling you that
> there
> > are new or unread replies in the thread.  The change is only when
> you
> > unthread the headers.
>
> I'm interested in getting other pan-users opinions here, but on the
> face of it I don't see the point of bolding articles when you can't
> actually reach their followups without rethreading anyway.
>
> IMO a better way to find new/unread replies to your posts is to click
> "Match Only My Articles" + "Show Matching Articles' Subthreads".

Ah, I didn't know this feature was there.  It works fine on 0.14.0, so 
I'll give it a try on the new 0.14.0.94 when I have a minute.

I did notice one of the earlier releases announced "support for sub-
threads", which I suppose refers to this feature.  So now that we have 
support for subthreads, I wonder whether I can do something I requested 
earlier and which someone else has requested more recently:  Is it 
possible to set up a bozo filter that says -

        "delete/score/mark-read/whatever this post and everything in
         the subthread it heads"?

I don't like deleting bozoposts because deletions screw up the 
threading in the header display.  But there are some psychotics that I 
just don't care to have any interaction with.  They tend to start 
threads, but if I deleted entire threads that they posted to the would 
occasionally force deletion of other good threads that they post to.  
The obvious solution is to delete/mark-read/score-down  any subthreads 
that they start, leaving the rest of the thread tree intact.

Thanks,
--
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas