[Pan-users] Re: message body

[Duncan]

Robert Marshall
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posted address@hidden,
excerpted below, on  Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:52:53 +0100:

> I use leafnode 2 - not sure how much of this is in leafnode 1 but
> version 2 is pretty stable! There's also delaybody mode but I've not
> used that - though that is on a group basis rather than a posting length

Someone commented that delay-body mode doesn't currently work with pan, 
since it grabs the "stubs" and won't normally re-grab without jumping 
thru hoops. (IDR the specifics.)

However, it just occurred to me as I write this... there's a workaround.  

Regulars will know I make use of the ability of pan to use the PAN_HOME 
environmental variable to tell it where to look for its settings, and 
that I use that to set up multiple pan instances with each pointed at a 
different config dir (with symlinks used where a settings file is 
identical across multiple instances).  Here, I simply run separate pan 
instances for text, binaries, and tests (since pan creates tracker files 
when one first enters a group, and doesn't wipe them out, you must do 
that manually... so I don't "visit" groups in my regular instances, only 
in my test instance, and thus only have to manually delete stuff at the 
filesystem level on it), but there's no reason it has to be that way.  
People could have separate instances for music and TV shows and adult 
groups, if they wished, or whatever.

So... the workaround to the delay-body issue is simple.  Setup two pan 
instances, both pointed at the local leafnode, but using one for browsing 
and setting up bodies to download, then the other for actually grabbing 
the bodies once leafnode has fetched them.

Not that this is likely to be of much help for the OP, since the whole 
idea would be to /avoid/ having to manually tell pan (or leafnode) to 
fetch articles, but for anyone else who happens to want to try leafnode 
in delay-body mode.

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