[Pan-users] Re: dumb question?

[Duncan]

Kurt Schilling <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 05 Jan
2009 20:37:45 -0500:

> WRT to news.software.readers many of the regulars there don't care for
> the 'new' pan because of the lack of good granular filtering.
> Consequently, when the subject of Pan comes up it is often suggested
> reverting to the old "stable" version.

... Except that the filtering/scoring isn't really any different in old-
pan.  Now, there /were/ useful "rules" that could be based on the 
scoring, that allowed auto-download, auto-mark-read, and/or auto-delete, 
and those are /very/ sorely missed by some of us.  However, old-pan was 
so terribly rotten at scaling that it was useless on groups of any size 
(> 1M articles).  New-pan easily manages an order of magnitude more 
articles, using less memory.  Also, the seamless integration of servers 
is very nice, tho it'd be nice if it were a bit more flexible -- you 
could disable a server temporarily without deleting it or playing manual 
filesystem games, for instance.

Overall, new-pan certainly scales better and is a better base as it's 
more modular and easier to add stuff too.  However, there's still a few 
features missing that will make old-pan better for those who don't deal 
with particularly large binary groups and/or who don't need server 
integration.  If only I were a coder...

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