Re: [Pan-users] Re: Old Pan: Cannot see newsgroup 'read' items before March 11

[Maurice]

On Friday 15 August 2008 01:24:42 walt wrote:

> maybe you were depending on pan to 'keep' the posts forever
> in its own temporary cache?  I know of no news client that will do that,
> because the cache really is temporary and eventually must be purged of
> old articles to make room for new ones.

  I hadn't realised that Pan had the concept of a 'cache'.
    Why does it need such a thing?  Why couldn't it simply put the postings in 
some directory and just keep going within the capacity of the file system, so 
that *I* can control which ones are kept and which are deleted?

  I mean, KMail doesn't use a cache (does it)? It just keeps stashing received 
email into the .../mail/inbox/cur directory. Seems to work fine!
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/\/\aurice