[Pan-users] choosing right servers and removing inaccessible groups? (was: debugging? (segmentation fault))

[David Chmelik]

On 2/13/22 6:46 AM, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 15:12:44 +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > I'm not sure what input it's trying to parse there:
> Going by the comments earlier in headers.cc, it's likely to be one of
> the files in ~/.pan2/groups. So it's a file that Pan wrote itself.
> Somehow it got corrupted apparently.
> You could try moving aside the files in the ~/.pan2/groups directory
> and putting them back gradually, to find which one is the bad one.
After I moved it, I'm back in Pan! :)  I'm not moving them back because 
there were over 700.
    It seems some/many were on news.sdf.org, which I no longer have 
access to, but Pan has a design problem that it didn't save which server 
you joined for each group.
    Is there any way I can get rid of all those old groups?
    I read/post on Eternal September (or alternative AIOE,) Gmane, but 
almost every time I try to post on Gmane, it says the group isn't on 
that server because it defaults to Eternal September.
    So, there really needs to be a new feature that Pan saves the 
information, for each group, of which server you joined it on.
    I was also unable to reply in Pan because, even after a changed to 
Gmane in 'From' it still said Gmane doesn't have this newsgroup anymore 
(said same about all Gmane groups I tried recently.)