[Pan-users] Re: <searching|reading> saved articles?

[Felix Karpfen]

* address@hidden <address@hidden> [21.12.09 04:01]:

> Charles Sullivan posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:27:38 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> > Older versions of PAN allowed you to create internal folders and save
> > articles in them.  Clicking on a folder then displayed the articles
> > saved in that folder just as if the folder were a newsgroup.
> >
> > This feature was omitted in PAN version 2.  My opinion that this was one
> > of the most useful features of PAN is apparently not shared by many
> > others as requests for its restoration have fallen on deaf ears.

SNIP

> in the previous implementation, expiration was locked to that of the
> server. New-pan allows you to set your own expiration. Here, I set
> no-expire and have posts going back several years, tho that does mean
> setting the cache size manually, directly in the config file,

SNIP

> Thus, it's possible to keep posts as they appear, directly in the
> groups in question That's no longer needed since expiry is entirely
> under user control now, and you can keep stuff indefinitely, directly
> in the newsgroup itself, if desired (and **if you have disk space**).
>
> So (1) the biggest reason for local folders has disappeared, expiry is
> entirely under user control,

I had spotted that change and have yet to work out how to use this
feature.

If the "Delete Article" routine did indeed delete the selected downloaded articles from ~/.pan2/article-cache 
AND there is an option to display (and search) either "unread" or "all" cached articles, then the 
"save articles (text)" routine would be superfluous.

At present, I have failed woefully on both counts.

I note that my "article-cache" has entries that date back to April 2009 - despite the 
fact that the setting under "Server Preferences" is set at the default (Expire Old 
Articles After Two Weeks).  In addition, I have failed to find a routine for reloading the cached 
out-of-date articles. I did not even know that they were still in the article-cache until I checked 
just now.

Felix Karpfen


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