[Pan-users] How would Pan handle "nonce" subscritption?

[Beartooth]

        There are some topics, apps, and lists about them, which I 
monitor for a while every year or two, and then disregard between whiles. 

        The best example is Wine: it's been getting closer and closer for 
the last ten years to what I really want, handling my legacy GPS/topo map 
software. 

        It can now install, launch, and run at least the two best of my 
four suites of such software; but even with those, it still can't manage 
to get the software to talk to the GPS.

        This much is nice, as far as it goes: I can look up some obscure 
street at the other end of town, or some town in a state halfway across 
the country, without getting up and finding maps & gazetteers.

        But my main purpose with that software, and what I have the GPSs 
for, is to map game trails, den trees, stands, and private routes to the 
stands. Until I can do that (preferably with Wine; but I'm starting to 
look at virtualizers), I have to keep either a M$ machine, or a dual-boot 
one -- and I yield to no man in my detestation of all things that come 
out of Redmond, WA.

        So I study, sticking to the example, the Wine list intensely for 
a few weeks, then ignore it for a year or two. Wine's developers seem to 
be interested mainly in office apps and games; any upgrades that benefit 
me, or the few others like me, are lagniappe.

        SO (to get back to the point about Pan), I want to know whether 
I'm better off leaving my copy of Pan subscribed via Gmane to such lists 
(and several similar ones to see if any of the linux-native apps have yet 
come to a point where they'd serve my purposes).

        Is that best? Or would I do better to unsub them and re-sub at 
long intervals?

        One benefit of the way I'm doing it is that I can still find and 
display my own old threads, clear back to 2004 or earlier. Otoh, the 
cruft rolls in and rolls in, between times when I sift it out.

        Has anybody tried it both ways, long enough to see a definite 
advantage one way?? Especially since it has gotten so much more onerous 
to save stuff inside Pan?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.