Re: [Pan-users] Marking copies of articles read

[Duncan]

On Thu 05 Jun 2003 13:47, Artur Jachacy posted as excerpted below:
>
> There is a slight problem I've encountered using Pan 0.13.95: I'm using
> a local server mediating between my news client(s) and 'real'
> newsservers. It is set up is such a way that a copy of every article I
> post is sent to a local newsgroup. The problem I've noticed is that
> those copies are not marked read after I view them, and I have to mark
> them read 'by hand'.

PAN had a similar problem with articles it posted to the groups, some time 
ago.  The problem then was that it wasn't actually d/ling them, but rather 
taking a shortcut and displaying them directly in the group locally as if it 
had downloaded them.  While I suspect the reason it was implemented that way 
was for bandwidth, it didn't work out for a number of reasons.  However, the 
reason it didn't mark your own articles read at that point is that they 
didn't have the normal headers attached to them.  IDR whether it was the 
msg-id header, or the sequence number, but whatever it was, PAN uses that to 
track the message as read, and couldn't do so automatically anyway without 
it.  One had to mark the message read manually, just as you are experiencing.

I'd suggest that at least for this group, you may need to have your local 
server insert that header line.  As you've set such a thing up and I haven't, 
I'm sure you have a better idea where to take it from there than I do, but 
that should point you in the right direction.

Alternatively..  if you don't use any other news clients or only post with 
PAN, you may not be aware that PAN already does basically the same thing.  
Under the dropdown normally saying subscribed groups, select folders, then 
visit the pseudo-group, pan.sent.  I should mention that I corrupted the 
folder somehow and had to go into ~/.pan/data and delete the folder manually, 
on the filesystem, and have it recreated, but yes, PAN does store the things, 
normally, almost exactly as you said --> as a pseudo-group.  One other 
caveat..  I'm not sure whether that pseudo-group is counted by PAN as part of 
the cache and trimmed accordingly when the cache gets bigger than you have 
PAN configured to use, or not.  Thus, I'm not sure how permanent that folder 
is.  However, it may do what you wish, or then agan it may not.  I just 
thought I should mention it in case you weren't aware of it.

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