Re: [Pan-users] options to set correct posting profiles and delete groups not on servers

[Jim Henderson]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:44:21 -0000 (UTC), David Chmelik wrote:

> I used to use four newsservers with Pan.  One closed, and another I
> stopped paying for because was mostly dead.  I suspect Pan kept their
> newsrc entries despite I deleted those servers.  Would it be possible to
> add option to delete newsgroups unlisted in any newsservers one still
> uses?  I subscribed to 1,500+ so it's impractical to start over to do
> so.
> 
> I use Gmane (second on my list).  However, Pan, for some reason, set
> Gmane newsgroup posting profiles all to Eternal September, so I have to
> continually (re)set.  There should be option if you add newsserver with
> more groups, set their posting profiles to that server.

An option would be to look in ~/.pan2/newsrc-* and just remove the newsrc 
files that are for the specific servers you want to remove from the 
configuration.

If you look at servers.xml, you can see which newsrc file corresponds to 
which server.  If you've already deleted the servers from the 
configuration, just look at the remaining servers and delete the newsrc 
files that aren't represented in that file, and you should be good. to go.

-- 
 Jim Henderson
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