Re: [Pan-users] Re: basic question?

[Todd Sandahl]

thanks for the reply, that did answer my question.
I've never heard of BNR2, I'll have to look into that one.
Thank you.

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:20, Lenroc wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:42:41 -0500, Todd Sandahl wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I meant second news server, not newsgroup
> 
> Pan doesn't automatically aggregate multiple news servers to "act" as a
> single server, if that's what you mean.
> 
> IOW, you can't tell Pan to download a group of posts and have it
> intelligently split the job up among multiple servers. BNR2 does that,
> though.
> 
> If you just want to use another news server, though, you can go to
> Tools>News Servers and set up multiple servers.
> 
> Then you switch between servers using the Servers menu.
> 
> You yourself can split a job up among different servers, but there's no
> functionality to do so automatically built into Pan.