Hello,
I haven't looked into this issue as much as I'd like, but I was
concerned that with 1.0 looming over the horizon, if I did all the
necessary research to track down the problem definitively, I'd miss
the chance to report a serious problem. Truthfully, I'm guessing it's
something with my news provider, but maybe someone who has the NNTP
protocol fresher in their mind than I do will be able to provide some
meaningful insight...
In the last few Pan versions (I haven't seen it in .116 yet), I've
noticed missing headers when updating large groups with the "get new
headers in selected groups". If I go back and re-download the last n
headers, the missing headers will show up. The two explanations I can
think of for this phenominon are: 1) My news provider (astraweb), who
is round robining their news servers via DNS, isn't properly
synchronizing their news servers -or- 2) Pan is losing headers.
If I remember my NNTP (and I probably don't), each group gave your
news reader a numeric article number which your client used to
determine how many new articles were available. If a news provider's
numbers were out of sync, the news reader would either re-download
headers, or it would miss headers. I suppose I could write a program
that would open a connection to each of the news servers in parallel,
request the header info on a particular group, and see if they're all
the same number - and if not, change providers. I was just curious if
anyone had experienced this problem with a different provider.
Now for the request: I think pan could use some feature that would
keep multiple copies of Pan from running at the same time.
Admittedly, this is a "protect you from yourself" type of mod, but it
seems to me that there's never a good reason to have two instances of
Pan open at the same time. On a different PC, I once started two
instances of Pan at different times, updated headers for a group on
each instance, THEN shut down one instance. When I was shutting down
my PC, I noticed the other instance, which got closed and messed up
the header count (at least). That seemed to screw things up
(understandably). Is there something that can be
Anyway, thank you very much for all the recent improvements to Pan -
it was memory conscious before that recent 60% savings ... now it uses
around 1/3 of the memory my old news client used to use :) Gotta love
it.
Brian Costello
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