Re: [Pan-users] How can I tell if it has an attach?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:53:45 -0500, John Morris wrote:
> Unfortunately, there's no real way to tell if a usenet message has an 
> attachment without reading the message itself.  Usenet was not originally 
> designed to have attached files.
>
> So, the number of lines is really the only hint that there may be an 
> attachment.   Some articles will have patterns in the subject, which 
> imply that there is an attachment, and I'm sure Pan uses this for 
> articles where it draws the "puzzle piece" icon.   For instance, with a 
> subject of " blah blah attach.jpg [1/1]", the "[1/1] is a clue to the 
> newsreader that there is an attachment".

Bummer, I understand now.. Thanks for explain. I just tested with Opera M2 
(email/newsgroup client) and it does the same thing, but when I read the 
message and it will display the attaches in the bottom like '<paper clip 
image> file.tar.gz'.. Pan doesn't do that (display nothing), but it works 
very well with the image by display in the bottom of message same as with 
text/plain of mimetype. Wish, the Usenet will work and improvement on the 
attachment feature in future.

> If you want to only display message with possible attachments, you could 
> set up a custom filter, where is only displays articles that have a 
> number of lines greater than a given value.

Ok, I will try to see if I can create a smart filter or find it from 
someone. Thanks!

P.S. CC to me, because I am not on the list.

Cheers,
Mezz

On Saturday 09 August 2003 12:40 am, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> First all, please forgive me.. I have accidented sent to the very wrong
> mailing list to pan-announce, which my copy has gotten mess up. Sorry 
> about
> that. Anyway, let me copy and paste in here to contiune in the correct
> mailing list.
>
> It seems to be little annoy to me lately, I had to pay attention at the
> numbers of line to give me the clue if it has the attach(es). However,
> looks like I am requesting a feature if anyone hasn't ask.. I think, it
> will be great if someone add a paper clip image on the (un)read image to
> show that it has an attach in it.
>
> BTW: I am using Pan 0.14.0.94..
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz


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