Re: [Pan-users] Needed feature

[Gregg]

In an ideal world I could sit and watch, and only queue up a little bit at
a time.  But with binary posts you cant really tell the size of them so
your queues can be over the limit, then it sits and tries until it fails
and the posts become fails. Then I have to Wait and click retry on them.

And sorting through the 30+ groups I use is hard enough, If I can only
pick one or 2 files from each group to stay under the limit.  Its easier
to queue up everything I want from the groups, and let it go, when it hits
the limit I stop it until the next day.  Otherwise its just a nightmare.

What I need is the ability to say "stop processing this server" and "start
processing this server again".

As for the merging of headers from all the servers. Its great when
grabbing new posts.  But for 1 of the servers I use, it has almost 30 days
retention and I just went back and queued up about everything i wanted
from 4 groups that I didnt know existed until today.  Put my tasks list
over 3000, and it can only grab a small amount of that at a time.  I dont
want to let it try 3 times and fail on that many, slamming the server like
that isnt very nice of me.

Im not complaining, I love pan.  I havent found anything on linux that
comes close to its interface (at least for my personal tastes.)  I just
need a feature like this and thing it would be very usefull to many
people.

Gregg

> 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
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
> temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
> Benjamin Franklin