Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[John Wendel]

On 01/22/2017 12:26 PM, Dave wrote:
> Is there any way at all to get Pan to filter and DELETE posts on sight?
>
> There's a binaries group currently being swamped by very, very
> large numbers of post.  So many that Pan and the OS is not
> reacting well to a group with a couple million posts in it.  ie all
> RAM used up (almost never happens on my 8GB PC) and swap
> getting thrashed to the extent that the PC almost grinds to a
> halt despite there being plenty of CPU power spare.
>
> On at least one occasion, the memory/page management
> choked and crashed/reboot the PC and that's a very unusual
> thing to happen on FreeBSD!
I feel your pain!  You can set a filter to ignore the user, but it won't 
stop the downloads.

Here's what I'm doing,

[1] In the group pane, right click the group name

[2] Select "Get latest N headers" and enter 100000

[3] Select and delete all the bad headers

[4] Download and/or cleanup

[5] Repeat

I've also tried using the free usenet browser from "newshosting.com".  
It does a good job of filtering junk posts, so you never see them. But I 
prefer Pan.