Re: [Pan-users] Automatic crossposting.

[Duncan]

On Thu 17 Jul 2003 11:59, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
> Is there a way to get PAN to automatically crosspost to a particular
> group?

This isn't likely to make it into a pan-main distributed version, since 
x-posting is normally discouraged -- thus the PAN GNKSA compliant warning 
when one attempts to x-post.  GNKSA compliance has been noted as a high 
priority by Charles and other developers, so anything (possibly excluding an 
eventual GUI point&click browse for groups rather than having to type them 
in) that makes it easier to x-post isn't likely to make it into official PAN 
sources.

That isn't to say you can't d/l sources, and create and apply your own patch, 
to do so.

Talking about which..  Here's an idea..  What about creating a /patches 
directory on pan.rebelbase, where unapproved for main/binary distribution, 
but contributed by users patches could be placed?  Versions they were created 
off of would have to be tracked, and a disclaimer README could mention they 
were designed to apply to the version they were created for and may not be 
updated for new versions since it was a user contribution based system.  A 
further disclaimer would be "unsupported, possibly security compromised, 
apply at your own risk" etc.  However, this would prevent folks that wanted 
to do mods from having to reinvent the wheel if there was an earlier 
contribution for that purpose, even if they DID have to modify it some to 
apply the patch to the current version.

A pointer web page could be set up with the same disclaimer/warnings.  One 
single web page, since folks applying the patches should be able to navigate 
the plain dir and find what they wished if they are qualified to appreciate 
the risk involved and apply the patch.

-- 
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