[Pan-users] Re: Get new Headers?

[Duncan]

fred <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 29 Sep 2006
21:58:19 -0500:

> Normally I just highlight the group, right click, get new headers. I
> checked it against klibido. Same server, only one server. I am getting
> last 10 days per described method. Maybe mixing pre-patch with patch
> gotten headers (or maybe operator error). Would the xref thing screw with
> pan but not klibido? Later patch versions are in the same place as the
> first patch. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358077

BTW, how's klibido doing lately and how does pan speed and memory usage
compare?  I was running klibido for awhile before new-pan came around, but
haven't used it in awhile as I had other stuff than bunni-news to do, then
new-pan got good enough I didn't have to worry about it.  Charles has
asked me (if it's still significantly better performing, then he knows
there should be some more tricks to find to bring pan into shape, if
not, then there may or may not be, in addition to the friendly
competition thing, of course) as he knows I used to run it, but I had to
say I couldn't give him anything on current klibido as I simply hadn't
tried it.

To your xref question... I'm not sure whether it would affect klibido or
not as I'm not sure how it manages downloads, but it's server-side and
would affect the many clients that track messages using this convenient
sequential method.  The thing is, while convenient for single-server or
separate server oriented clients, because xref is server specific, it's
not so convenient for combined view message tracking.  I know rather less
about the alternatives tho than I'd like, so can't really do a comparison,
and while I believe I have a vague understanding of how overviews and xref
works, without even a vague understanding of the alternatives, I can't say
how practical they are in terms of tracking, nor how likely it might be
that klibido uses xref tracking in comparison to the alternatives.

If that makes any sense...  The sort form is I don't know enough about it
to even venture a half-informed speculation.

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