Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.119 Multiple servers. Howto?

[David Kelly]

On Nov 19, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Scott wrote:

> I see you can use different posting profiles, but how do I *read* a
> newsgroup from a different server?

Why do you care which news server Pan uses? The point is that Pan now  
pulls articles from the servers it finds them on. That when a  
newsgroup is on multiple servers it compares and magically offers  
articles which were missing from one. Its not yet perfect as I think  
I have seen articles that I have deleted which were slow to appear on  
another server, reappear when they arrived at the slow server. "I  
think", as I haven't for sure caught it in the act. Have started  
"mark all as read" rather than use delete which was necessary in the  
past to keep the prior pan's memory use reasonable on large groups.

When doing bulk downloads Pan distributes the tasks among configured  
servers. Just how it distributes is determined by the news server  
priority setting.

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