Re: [Pan-users] top posting

[Carl L. Gilbert]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:16, Torstein Sunde wrote:
> Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Is their a way to get PAN to shut up about top posting?  Can PAN be
> > made to simply read news and leave the politics out?
> 
> This has been discussed here before.  See these threads:
>   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2003-08/msg00157.html
>   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2002-09/msg00203.html
> 
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Thanks, as expected just a bunch of lame excuses about "specifications"
and "find another reader."  People try to phrase it kindly, but who is
fooled by that?

This rant is of course not directed to you as a reply.

Every problem I have with PAN so far has been to meet this stupid spec. 
Guess I shouldn't complain about PAN, but about the spec and who wrote
it.

I just want the "option" to turn the warning off.  I'm surprised that
PAN would loose points with such an option.  Heck even a command line
option would be nice.

I came to PAN because it was hailed as such a good reader.  It probably
is.  But it can be annoying too.

I would vote that their be an option to rather than simply complain,
also offer the option to correct my mistake automatically.  Same with
the width issue, auto-correction would be nice.

And don't we all use fake email addresses in newsgroups these days,
except the private ones?  Yet PAN forces a well formatted email address,
even though we all know its fake anyway.

If I had more time I would add such features myself, but of course I
have my own projects to tend too...



-- 
Thank you,


CL Gilbert
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes
9:16

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