[Pan-users] Re: deleteing old headers (was: Pan's memory usage...)

[cav]

> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 05:37, Charles Kerr wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:55:30AM +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:39:01 -0800, Charles Kerr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Last night I put in the often-requested "purge articles older than N
> days"
> > > > feature into Edit|Preferences|Behavior.  The default is 14 days.
> > > > Unless you've got a *REALLY* good server, I doubt articles older than
> > > > that are still on the server.
> > > 
> > > news.cis.dfn.de keeps articles for 26 days usually. 158 days for some
> > > groups, such as gnu.*
> > > 
> > > localhost keeps them for longer than 14 days too.
> > 
> > Maybe this needs to be a per-server setting...?
> 
> I'd suggest it be on a per group setting...  
> 
> Gollum already explained all the reasoning.

I seem to remember a newsreader which had some special 
settings concerning purging of old headers. (I think it
was Forte Agent) You defined your purge rules differently 
based on whether or not the article was cached, and whether or 
not it still existed on the server... (a header for which the 
article was cached could be kept...)  I think what it did was 
at the time it went to download articles, it first checked what the 
earliest one was on the server, and deleted all the headers older
than that.  This elimiated the server missing articles problem...

Maybe pan needs to do something along those lines... 



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