[Pan-users] Re: Pan ignoring a watched thread

[Duncan]

Joe Zeff <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:51:33
-0700:

> I'm trying to get some help for my sister's Windows box from a Usenet
> group.  To make sure I don't lose track of where my posts are, I told
> Pan to Watch the thread.  This seems to have the effect of setting the
> thread to -9999, Ignore, not +9999, Watch.  (I don't *think* I clicked
> the wrong item.)  Every time I check, I can't see my posts unless I set
> Pan to show Ignored posts.  I've even set a scoring rule that all posts
> that end with [ending of my post's subject] are to be set to +9999, but
> that does no good.  Any thoughts?
> 
> If you need it, I'm using the most recent version of Pan available for
> Fedora 9.

OK, there's a feature /I/ just (re?)discovered in 0.133, but I think it 
has been there for awhile.

As you said, set pan to display all posts.  Select a mis-scored post and 
select either from the popup menu (context on the post in the header 
pane) or from the Articles menu, the Edit Article's Watch/Ignore/Score 
option.

That should popup a dialog with the various scores applying, and their 
effect.  You can remove the bad score and add a new one, then hit close 
and rescore.

Alternatively, edit the scorefile directly.  It will probably be in the 
default ~/.pan2 directory if your pan install is fairly new, but may be 
in ~/news/Scorefile (or was it News or .news...? should be easily found 
in any case) if it's an older install.  (The second location is 
apparently compatible with slrn, as pan and slrn use a very similar 
scorefile format.  It used to be the default but that changed with newer 
versions as the old location was confusing for those who didn't know 
about the compatibility thing.)  The slrn scorefile doc can be useful, 
tho pan isn't quite that advanced (it doesn't do includes, etc, AFAIK).  
Also, pan's scorefile is normally case insensitive.  Of course, either 
edit the file with pan closed or trigger a rescore, say by leaving and 
reentering the group, to get your changes to take.

http://www.slrn.org/docs/score.txt

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