[Pan-users] General questions about Pan

[Douglas Bollinger]

Sorry, hit the wrong button for the other post. :P

I'm working on some documentation for Pan.  I have a few questions about some
features and I'm hoping the mailing list can help.

With a binary post, are there any instances where a red puzzle-piece
(incomplete) post can't be saved?  I just saved a red puzzle-piece post
without any problems.  I assume it's corrupt, but I thought I've read where
people were having trouble forcing the d/ling of corrupt binary posts.

What exactly does delete article do?  I'm sure it removes the article from the
cache, but anything else?

I understand "Show Matching Articles" and "Show Matching Articles' Threads,"
but what is the purpose of "Show Matching Articles' Subthreads".  The header
display looks the same as "Show Matching Articles".

How are Supersede Article and Cancel Article supposed to work?  Am I right in
assuming that most news servers will not honor these commands?

When you setup a news server to never expire old articles, I believe Pan will
still delete articles when the news server does.  Is this correct?  Isn't this
setting just for when you want to expire articles faster than the news server?

Well, that's enough for now.  Pan's a complex program and I don't pretend to
understand every little feature.  If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

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