Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[Dave]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:55:56 -0800, John Wendel wrote:

> On 01/22/2017 06:35 PM, Dave wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Well, I think your assumption is probably correct.  Sorry for the bad 
> advice.
> 
No worries, I've not tried it yet.  I guess I won't now :-)

-- 
Climate Change may be raising the sea levels, but the gene pool
seems to be drying up.