RE: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)

[Travis]

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Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re:
choosing news server)

> Beartooth wrote:
> [...]
>> The point is that I try to keep each server's lists down to few
>> enough to obviate the kind of scrolling a/o searching that I have
to
>> do if for instance I hear of some new list and have to go through
>> the All Groups list on Gmane or Giganews to get to it...
> 
> I'm curious how many groups other people subscribe to.  I
> also have a few very specialized news servers which carry
> groups that are not propagated to usenet-at-large.  If I
> total up all those specialized groups across all those
> servers I might get as many as twenty groups, probably a bit
> less.  If I add the mainstream groups I subscribe to, I'd
> wind up with maybe twenty-five groups at most, and probably less.
> 
> I don't find the idea of looking at a list of twenty groups
> annoying or inconvenient, so I'm asking for other opinions:
> how many groups (in one list) are you willing to look at
> without feeling annoyed or frustrated?
> 
> Perhaps there are other reasons for wanting to keep groups in
> a subdirectory/folder/collection?  What about a MicroSoft
> employee who likes to cruise the linux groups and offer help
> to linux newbies?
> She might well want to create a folder called 'antichrist' in
> which to store her list of linux groups.  (Dunno.)
> 
> Opinions?
> 
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I only use Pan (0.14.2) for binary groups where 99.9% of the posts are
multi-part.  I use another reader for text and single part binaries.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington