[Pan-users] Countering BOT attacks.

[Alen Williams]

>From a recent usenet posting:

Some nimrod (possibly an agent of the MPAA) instituted a
"bot attack" which placed a "new" segment into many or most of the RAR
files. Most newsreaders will assemble a multipart file by using the
most recent of the individual segments when there are two or more of
the same header information -- thus, your quandary.



This type of thing is beginning to happen more and more. Right now you
can get round this by telling Pan not to view Multipart postings as one,
and then finding the offending segment and deleting it. Which is of
course a major pain in the wazzooo. Apparently the writers of Xnews made
a very small change and countered this. Is this possible in Pan? To have
an option to use the FIRST segment if it finds two with the same
headers?

Regards.