Re: [Pan-users] Latest Pan and Tin's ~/.newsrc

[Phillip Pi]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 03:04:11AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
> > How do I have Pan use my Tin's ~/.newsrc? I cannot seem to find the
> > settings. I want both programs to share the same configurations.
> 
> Once you setup a news server in pan, you can edit the servers.xml file 
> and point the newsrc entry for that server anywhere you want.
> 
> Here, I simply rename the files to reflect the news server name (so for 
> example, newsrc.gmane, for the gmane.org list2news server I use to get my 
> mailing lists including this one as newsgroups), but you can edit the 
> whole path and point it where you want, if necessary.
> 
> So just point it at ~/.newsrc, and assuming you have only the one server, 
> you should be fine.  (Unfortunately, the newsrc format appears to be 
> single-server only, so pan uses multiple files for multiple servers.  
> Don't try to point more than one server at the same file or you WILL have 
> issues! =8^0  An exception would be servers such as the European and USian 
> servers that some NSPs run, that coordinate their available groups and 
> article sequence numbering, in which case using the same newsrc for all 
> article-sequence-number coordinated servers should be just fine.)

Sweet! Wait, why are our passwords visible in texts in there? 
Shouldn't it be encrypted? :(

Anyways, I edited this XML to use ~/.newsrc that Tin uses with read 
groups marked and stuff. However, Pan still downloaded old headers even 
though I told only new headers? I didn't have this problem in old 
v0.14.2.91. I am currently using Pan v0.133 from a brand new Debian's 
stable installation (it doesn't have the old Pan version to go back to). 
:(
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