[Pan-users] Re: A multi-server question

[Bruce Bowler]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:05:09 +0000, Bruce Bowler wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:01:05 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> posted
>> 20070322184345.68946641.bbowler-W/
address@hidden,
>> excerpted below, on  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:43:45 -0400:
>> 
>> The idea is that pan only fetches a new or updated group list when you
>> tell it to.  If you don't tell it to, it continues using its old one.
>> Therefore, by editing the existing list, you can make pan think about
>> any specific server alternately that either a specific group doesn't
>> exist (by editing it out), or that /only/ a specific group (or groups)
>> exist (by eliminating everything else).
> 
> Yep, editting newsrc-xxx seems to be, after a little playing around, the
> only way to do it.  That falls apart if pan ever decides to update the
> group list (or far more likely :-), I forget that I editted the file and
> tell pan to update the group list.
> 
> It would be nice (and I'll file a bug report to this effect) to have a
> formal, supported method for telling pan to do what my original post
> suggested.

OK, I hate replying to myself but...  I also had to move the folder 
"groups" out of the way and perform some significant editting of 
newsgroups.xov in order to get things the way I want them.  Of course 
after moving "groups" out of the way, pan "forgot" all of the headers 
that had already been downloaded :-(

Bruce