Re: [Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server

[Phil Grundig]

Checkboxes/ticks to disable/enable a server would be an entirely sensible  (and 
obvious) usability feature to add.

I certainly never would have guessed the '0' connection limit thing, if it 
works that is.  Deleting a server also means the entire newsgroup list has to 
be downloaded again when the server is re-added, since Pan must simply delete 
the list!

And syscntl tweaking could have undesired effects on other connections for 
other apps and seems a bit crude.

So: two feature requests (could these be passed on?):

1. Checkboxes/ticks to disable/enable a server.

2. Confirmation dialog asking if all information about a server (including 
group list) should be deleted if the server is removed from the server list.

If 1. got done that would probably be enough,

--- On Tue, 13/1/09, SciFi <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: SciFi <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, 13 January, 2009, 2:10 AM
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:41 +0000, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> > 
> > One of the servers that I get articles from is
> "dead", (hopefully only
> > temporarily).  As a result, pan "hangs" for
> quite some time when I exit
> > pan, waiting for the network connection to fail.  Is
> there a way to tell
> > pan to "not bother" to try and connect to
> this server, without deleting
> > the server from the list of servers?
> > 
> > Pan 0.132 "waxed in black" on Fedora 9
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Bruce
> 
> I believe if you dial–down the “Connection Limit” to
> 0 (Zero),
> that server will not be used at all ‘period’.  ;)
> 
> Also there are probably sysctl settings that can shorten
> the
> time-outs for initiating connections, but those would be
> system–wide settings of course.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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