Re: [Pan-users] Re: Organize subscriptions into folders

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Thanks for the information. That was the work-around that I had figured out. I 
was hoping, though, that there would be a way to do in explicitly. Oh well.. 
maybe in a future release.

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 8:42 pm, Lenroc wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:41:25 -0800, Charles Schwartz wrote:
> > Is there a way to organize the subscription pane into folders.
>
> No, not really.
>
> But, you can do the next-best thing by creating different "Servers" for
> each group you want.
>
> Just pull down the Tools menu and select "News Servers". Create a new
> Server, name it, say, 'Computers', and put in the same NNTP host that you
> already use. With that 'Server', subscribe to only the computer-related
> groups. Rinse, repeat...
>
> You can switch between Servers using the 'Servers' menu. It's not _too_
> ugly, though it's certainly not ideal ;)
>
> One thing to watch out for is opening multiple connections to your NNTP
> host. My ISP (who is my NSP) allows 4 connections per real server, so if I
> allowed each 'virtual' server in Pan to open 4 connections, I'd quickly
> run into problems.
>
> (If you look through the archives for this mailing list, I'm relatively
> certain that this topic has been described more eloquently in the past,
> most likey by Duncan...)
>
> Note that both of the other responses to your post seem to be way
> off-base. Procmail is irrelevant, and Richard was apparently thinking of
> binary downloads.

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