Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[Dave]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:03:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote:

> 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.

I always assumed that "Get latest N headers" would do just that and I'd then
miss the preceding headers.  I shall try that.

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