[Pan-users] Re: Feature Request

[David Rosenthal]

>This rather goes against the entire philosophy of Unix/Linux -- that you 
>should have tools that do one thing and do it well. Pan does news and it does 
>it well. 
>
>-- 
>Toby A Inkster BSc ARCS

Well, to me it IS only one thing, Toby.  I'm sending text to a server
via the Internet.  Or I'm reading text from a server retrieved via the
Internet.

>No thanks, please don't bloat Pan with something irrelevant for a
>newsreader.  Forwarding and replying by email is relevant.  Reading
>email or composing from scratch aren't.

Could you please explain to me what the difference is between writing
text to upload to a news server and writing text to upload to a mail
server?  If the functionality to do one is already present, then the
functionality is present for the other.

I do agree that needless bloat is undesirable and that no program can
be all things to all users.  I understand that the sorry state of
Windows software is at least partially due to feature creep.  

On the other hand, why should I have to have two different programs
that compose a text message and upload it to a server when the only
difference is the protocol used to upload the message to each server,
and both protocols are already written into Pan?

>I rather suggest you request adding the advanced newsreader features
>you need to a combined mail and news client, like Sylpheed-claws.
>(Such feature requests are probably more appropriate for Sylpheed-claws
>than "plain" Sylpheed, due to the "bleeding edge" philosophy of the
>former.)

Where can I get this Sylpheed-claws?  I suppose for Libranet (Debian
based distro) it would be in Unstable or Testing?  Well, I'll go look
there, but if you could post a home page where I can get CVS's if
needed I'd appreciate it.

>
>Agree!! Since I have to revert to my p133/48 for some time (blown cpu in my 
>other box :-/ )
>-- 
>Frank Van Damme
>homepage:       www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9917684
>jabber (=IM):   address@hidden

Sorry to hear about your loss.  I hope it won't cost too much to
replace it.  Why not just go with a text based reader running in a
console and get rid of X entirely?
Respectfully,

David Rosenthal