Re: [Pan-users] Re: An issue (can't remove task), and a question (edit scoring rules)

[Geoff]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 07:03:19 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> I posted the slrn scorefile doc link.  It explains it
> there, but basically, old-pan took regular expressions in
> the newsgroup lines of the scorefile (as well as the slrn
> wildcard style), while new-pan is stricter slrn style. 

Sorry, although I had glanced at that I did not have much
free time yesterday..

> * is the newsgroup wildcard (not the regex .*, as used in
> the other matching conditions).  Thus, to match all
> groups, simply use * in the newsgroup line (as entered in
> pan), or [*] if you are direct-editing the scorefile.
> For top-level hierarchies, use for example [alt.*] (line
> in the file), to match a group name containing, use for
> instance [*binaries*].
> 
> Simple enough, eh?

Yep :)

Just going back to my point about being unable to remove
tasks for a moment.  I have not done any serious testing,
but it does seem to me that the probability of the problem
occurring increases the longer Pan has been running without
news being read.  - I just thought I would mention it. No
need to respond.

Geoff
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