RE: [Pan-users] Question about Multi-Part Post Detection (BNR2-likefeature)

[Travis]

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[mailto:address@hidden
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Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:43
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Subject: [Pan-users] Question about Multi-Part Post Detection
(BNR2-likefeature)

> Hi. I used to use BNR2 as my newsreader/newsdownloader.
> Unfortunately that app has big problems with stability and
> memory consumption and performance.
> However since I discovered PAN I havent really looked back.
> There is however one small thing that I miss from BNR2, the
> way it handle multi-part posts.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong (maybe my settings are not
> optimised.), but in PAN if you go into a newsgroup, pan will
> group all parts of a single post but not all posts of a multi-part
> posts as one. 
> 
> Allow me to give an example since that explanation was probably
quite
> confusing. 
> 
> You go into a newsgroup and there you have large Linux iso as
> a multi-part post. The poster would usually split the files in to
> rars as such:
> 
> filename.rar, filename,r00, filename.r01,
> filename.r02..............etc.
> 
> In Pan you would see this as multiple posts like so:
> 
> Subject: filename.rar
> Subject: filename.r00
> Subject: filename.r01
> Subject: filename.r02
> 
> So if the filename was split into 60 Rars, then you would
> have to select each one to download.
> 
> In BNR2, the entire multi-part post was available as a single
> grouped thread which you could download with a single click.
> 
> So you would only see:
> 
> Subject: filename.rar
> 
> 
> 
> This certainly made things easier with download very large
> multi-part posts sind they were displayed as a single grouped and
> collapsed thread. Furthermore BNR2 also displayed on the same line
> how many parts of how many total parts were available/intact. That
way
> you could easily see if it was worth downloading or not.
> 
> So my question is:
> 
> Does Pan have the ability to do something like that?
> Specifically, the ability to view multi-part posts as a single
> collapsed thread. 
> 
> I'm new to pan and just wanted to make sure that I didnt miss any
> configuration settings. 

Pan doesn't do what you want but all you have to do is click on the
first part then hold down the shift key and click the last part and
then save.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington