Re: [Pan-users] Re: Message Search

[Jeff Berman]

> From: Duncan
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:29:44 PM
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Message Search
> 
> William Scalione  posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 10 Apr 2008
> 12:21:41 -0400:
> 
> > I use Pan for my newsgroup program, but sometimes I need to log into
> > windows (shudder) if I am looking for something in particular. I use
> > News Rover for that and it works great. Do a search for a file and
> > apparently it checks a database on the news server and in about 10
> > seconds it returns a list of messages with the search string in it. I
> > was wondering if there was any other program, or a way for Pan to do the
> > same type of thing. It is really a great feature and would be a great
> > addition to Pan. Or if that isn't possible, does anyone know of a way to
> > access that database using any other program?
> 
> I'm not familiar with newsrover, but from your description, it must be 
> using a server-side database.  Pan doesn't do anything like that yet, and 
> I know of no Linux apps that do.

Newswatcher on the Mac does this, too.  I believe it uses the XPAT news server 
command.  I've always wished Pan supported this, as it is extremely handy.  
Let's say you were looking for a particular chain of binary files.  With Pan is 
it is now, you'd have to download all headers from the server and then filter 
the display, which could take some time.  With the XPAT capability, you just 
select the newsgroup(s), give it your search string, and only those headers are 
retrieved from the server.  The server does all the work on its end.  And, of 
course, not all usenet servers support XPAT; for example, Cox's does but Power 
Usenet doesn't.

Jeff



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