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[Pan-users] Re: Newsgroup "descriptions"
From: |
Jim Henderson |
Subject: |
[Pan-users] Re: Newsgroup "descriptions" |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:08:04 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: |
Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) |
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:57:30 +0000, walt wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:20:15 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> I just noticed (as a result of a conversation with another NNTP user
>> about this) that 0.132 doesn't seem to display the description fields
>> returned by the news server when using the "list newsgroups" command.
>
> Well, pan fetches the descriptions from the news servers and stores them
> in ~/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc -- and then ignores that file completely.
>
> I can only surmise that Charles intend[s,ed] to do something with that
> file sometime in the future, but only Charles knows for certain :o/
Cool, good to know that that information is pulled. Might not be
difficult to patch things to include them. If I had another round tuit,
I might even try my hand at writing the patch - but I'm suffering a
shortage of tuits of all shapes and sizes, not just the round ones. ;-)
Jim
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