Re: [Pan-users] Question

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Monday 22 July 2002 07:46, address@hidden wrote:

> > I could find no setting for when to delete messages. In Agent I
> > delete all read messages upon exiting. I could not figure out how to
> > do this in Pan.
>
> What do you mean by "delete messages"? There is a cache concept in Pan
> and a corresponding option to clear it upon exit. There is also a
> filter mode where you askl to see only new articles posted since the
> last time you looked at the group.

        He's probably referring to a global "delete old articles" setting; I 
recall using other newsreaders that had a setting like this.

        Mike, in Pan you can do this sort of thing with a filter.  Make a rule 
to delete articles older than X days, and make a filter that applies it.  
You can pick which newsgroups it applies to.  For instance, I have two 
"age" filters -- one for binary groups which expire quickly, and another 
for text groups which keep articles on the server longer.
        You can be flexible with these -- using AND and OR filters, you can 
have 
rules that "Delete articles older than one week which I haven't read", or 
"Delete articles older than two days, but only if I *have* read them."  I 
find these filters much more useful than a global setting.  :)

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