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[Pan-users] Group-preferences: excluding a news server?


From: walt
Subject: [Pan-users] Group-preferences: excluding a news server?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:15:09 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: Pan/0.125 (Potzrebie)

I just read Bruce's post entitled 'A multi-server question' and it got
me thinking.

There may be compelling reasons for not wanting to download a particular 
group from a particular server.

Just one example:  alt.binaries.pictures.animals is not carried by the 
gmane.org news server, but every time I fire up pan, the gmane.org server 
is queried for new headers for it and many other groups I follow.

Wouldn't it be more fair to gmane.org if I could tell pan not to pester
the gmane server for pictures of animals or mp3 files?

There may also be other reasons for excluding a server from a particular
newsgroup that I haven't even thought of yet.

In the interest of symmetry I considered proposing 'Downloading Profiles'
to complement 'Posting Profiles' but this may well be overkill.  (Charles,
does 'symmetry' tug at your heartstrings the same way it tugs at mine? ;o)

Can anyone else come up with reasons for adding Downloading Profiles,
or maybe just excluding a server from a Group Preference?





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