Re: [Pan-users] Re: Old Pan v0.14.2.91 keeps adding removed newsgroups into my .newsrc.

[Phillip Pi]

> The key to understanding what's going on here is to realize that while 
> old-pan /sort/ of supported newsrc files, that wasn't its main record of 
> things -- it had its own database format and basically only exported to 
> newsrc files so it could work cooperatively with other news clients.  
> Thus, it's seeing the data in the newsrcs and using that to update its 
> own database, then exporting the combined information back to the newsrc 
> files when it is closed.
> 
> What you have to do is unsubscribe from the groups in question from 
> inside pan, then immediately close pan, and it should take.  You can then 
> open the newsrcs manually (or using tin may work as well, I don't use it 
> so don't know) and delete the old group information if desired.  If you 
> do so you should probably do the same thing to the pan record, or, while 
> it shouldn't resubscribe them, it'll probably put the record back of the 
> messages you had read when it closes again.
> 
> I know you have reasons to use old-pan instead of new-pan and I respect 
> that.  However, it is worth pointing out that new-pan uses the newsrc 
> files directly -- tho it stores other non-newsrc info in other files 
> too.  Since new-pan uses the newsrc files directly, it shouldn't have 
> this issue.  The one caveat there would be if you have multiple servers, 
> since the newsrc format apparently has no provision for that.  Thus,
> new-pan uses multiple newsrcs, identified by number rather than server 
> name, and if you were to try sharing them, you'd need to ensure that you 
> configured each client (by hand) to point at the same newsrc for the same 
> server, or there'd be chaos.

Oh wow. Pan has ~/.newsrc support now? I remember v0.106 didn't have it
from my old post in 2006:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-08/msg00042.html ...

Has Pan fixed issues like highlighing newsgroups and download new 
headers as shown in my old 2006 posts: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-08/msg00048.html ?

Thank you in advance. :)