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

[Maurice]

On Sunday 17 August 2008 03:51:18 Duncan wrote:

> If you do no binaries at all, only text, then 10 megs will last
> some days/weeks, but it's unlikely to last months unless you do very
> little news at all.  Since you're talking about losing posts that are
> months old, I therefore assumed that you'd already figured the cache
> thing out and had adjusted it accordingly,

  Not so! Until recently I hadn't realised the Pan operated a cache...

> Also, a cache expire would expire the posts themselves (aka the bodies),
> but leave the overviews (aka headers) available, as they're not
> considered part of the cache.  Since you indicated the headers/overviews
> are disappearing as well, it's the server sync.

  OIC - thanks for the the clarification Duncan.
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/\/\aurice