Re: [Pan-users] Needed feature

[Duncan]

On Sat 14 Dec 2002 08:20, Gregg posted as excerpted below:
> I have 3 news servers.  2 of them have no limit on the amount of downloads
> per day.  The 3rd only lets me grab 750 megs a day.  So I need the ability
> to put that 1 server offline while the other servers are still
> downloading.  So once I notice that 1 server start failing on downloads
> (ive reached my limit) I can put it offline until after midnight, and then
> put it back online.
>
> This is my basic idea for it (offline/online per server), but maybe you
> have another idea.

This used to be available with PAN 0.11.x/GTK/Gnome1 version.  The feature was 
apparently removed in the upgrade to GTK2/PAN 0.12.x and hasn't reappeared, 
yet.

However... I don't quite see the problem, as PAN currently works.  You simply 
don't d/l any more from that server, after it reaches its limit.  At some 
point in the future, after a database/backend upgrade, PAN is supposed to 
work more like BNR2, such that it will treat the same group on all subscribed 
servers as a single group, not four separate groups.  At THAT point, it will 
need per server settings and even server prioritizing, but as it is, when a 
server reaches its quota for the day, you simply stop scheduling more stuff 
to d/l from there, and use the other servers instead.  Since the groups are 
still displayed separately, you just don't ask for any more downloads while 
looking at the stuff displayed on the server whos quota has expired.

-- 
Duncan
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