[Pan-users] Re: Can I not fetch headers from a particular server?

[Duncan]

walt <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:11:07
+0000:

> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:15:55 +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> 
>> My ISP has its newssever accessible under 2 aliases: newszilla and
>> newszilla6.xs4all.nl (which is its IPv6 address - and to promote IPv6
>> everybody in the world can access it!). So the articles they have are
>> the same. I am experimenting with IPv6 so I have them both listed as
>> servers, but I don't need to fetch the headers of one of them.  Is there
>> a way in which I can configure that?
> 
> I can't find a way to do it using pan, but I think you can do it by
> editing your ~/.pan2/servers.xml.
> 
> Each server will have a entry something like this:
> <newsrc>/home/walt/.pan2/newsrc-3</newsrc>
> 
> I would try changing that entry to, for example, newsrc-2 so that
> both servers are using the same newsrc file.  Worth a try, anyway.

Now that's the type of thing I might suggest, only I hadn't thought of
that particular angle (I'm not used to dealing with the newsrc files), so
hey, good hacking mindset you got there. =8^)

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