[Pan-users] Re: Newsgroup "descriptions"

[Jim Henderson]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:57:30 +0000, walt wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:20:15 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> I just noticed (as a result of a conversation with another NNTP user
>> about this) that 0.132 doesn't seem to display the description fields
>> returned by the news server when using the "list newsgroups" command.
> 
> Well, pan fetches the descriptions from the news servers and stores them
> in ~/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc -- and then ignores that file completely.
> 
> I can only surmise that Charles intend[s,ed] to do something with that
> file sometime in the future, but only Charles knows for certain :o/

Cool, good to know that that information is pulled.  Might not be 
difficult to patch things to include them.  If I had another round tuit, 
I might even try my hand at writing the patch - but I'm suffering a 
shortage of tuits of all shapes and sizes, not just the round ones. ;-)

Jim
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