Re: [Pan-users] Re: Several features request

[Michael M.]

Duncan wrote:
> Note that the way the hotkey mapping works, since the server labels are
> assigned by the user, there's no way to map hotkeys to each server by
> default, because the name of the server isn't known until it is set up. 
> Thus, the only way it can work is if you assign hotkeys yourself, which
> I've done here, and I'd certainly recommend others do, if they regularly
> use multiple servers.

Not to usurp Julien's grandparent feature requests, but I have been 
wondering (as I lurk) why more people who want to use multiple servers 
don't use something like Hamster, leafnode or Newsplex in conjunction 
with Pan?  I have been using Pan only for a short while, since I started 
making more of a go of using Linux, and I was impressed with how it 
handles multiple servers and how simple it is to switch between them. 
But still ... IMO it just can't beat the convenience of a local proxy 
server (of the sort that the aforementioned software provides).  I like 
having all my groups from all of my servers visible at once and I 
haven't found a newsreader that provides that.  Maybe there's some 
downside to these programs that I'm not aware of?  I used Hamster for a 
year or more on Windows without any problems, and so far I haven't had 
any trouble with leafnode (though it is a bit trickier to set-up than 
Hamster, but that seems to be par-for-the-Linux-course in my limited 
experience <g>).  I'm just curious about whether people just don't see 
any benefits to them, or whether there are problems/issues I'm unaware of.

Enjoyable, informative, instructive list, BTW, thanks to all posters -- 
and to Charles for a nice newsreader.

--
Michael