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Re: [Pan-users] How can I tell if it has an attach?
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Jeremy Messenger |
Subject: |
Re: [Pan-users] How can I tell if it has an attach? |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:53:25 -0500 |
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Opera7.11/Linux M2 build 406 |
On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:53:45 -0500, John Morris wrote:
Unfortunately, there's no real way to tell if a usenet message has an
attachment without reading the message itself. Usenet was not originally
designed to have attached files.
So, the number of lines is really the only hint that there may be an
attachment. Some articles will have patterns in the subject, which
imply that there is an attachment, and I'm sure Pan uses this for
articles where it draws the "puzzle piece" icon. For instance, with a
subject of " blah blah attach.jpg [1/1]", the "[1/1] is a clue to the
newsreader that there is an attachment".
Bummer, I understand now.. Thanks for explain. I just tested with Opera M2
(email/newsgroup client) and it does the same thing, but when I read the
message and it will display the attaches in the bottom like '<paper clip
image> file.tar.gz'.. Pan doesn't do that (display nothing), but it works
very well with the image by display in the bottom of message same as with
text/plain of mimetype. Wish, the Usenet will work and improvement on the
attachment feature in future.
If you want to only display message with possible attachments, you could
set up a custom filter, where is only displays articles that have a
number of lines greater than a given value.
Ok, I will try to see if I can create a smart filter or find it from
someone. Thanks!
P.S. CC to me, because I am not on the list.
Cheers,
Mezz
On Saturday 09 August 2003 12:40 am, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
First all, please forgive me.. I have accidented sent to the very wrong
mailing list to pan-announce, which my copy has gotten mess up. Sorry
about
that. Anyway, let me copy and paste in here to contiune in the correct
mailing list.
It seems to be little annoy to me lately, I had to pay attention at the
numbers of line to give me the clue if it has the attach(es). However,
looks like I am requesting a feature if anyone hasn't ask.. I think, it
will be great if someone add a paper clip image on the (un)read image to
show that it has an attach in it.
BTW: I am using Pan 0.14.0.94..
Cheers,
Mezz
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