Re: [Pan-users] Copy of my own post?

[Steve Davies]

On 21 November 2010 01:12, Steven D'Aprano <address@hidden> wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
>
>>        I haven't posted much to r.g in recent years, nor maybe ever from
>> this address; so it make a while at best for that post to appear on the news
>> servers.
>
> Is r.g moderated or something? Otherwise the time since you last posted
> shouldn't effect the time it takes for the post to arrive.
>
>
>> But I hate to go to the trouble of crafting it all over again. I did not,
>> unfortunately, interrupt the job and save it as a draft at any point.
>>
>>        Would pan-0.133-4.fc12.i686 by any happy chance have kept a copy on
>> my machine anywhere? (I have it set to use gedit.)
>
> Possibly the biggest complaint I have about current generation Pan is that
> it no longer saves a copy of posts you make, as it used to. I consider that
> a major regression, a serious problem, and terrible blemish on an otherwise
> excellent product. It was almost enough to drive me to another newsreader.
>
> You might be lucky and find that gedit saves a temporary copy under /tmp, or
> whatever obscure location Gnome hypothetically uses instead. But probably
> not.
>

I'm certainly not the right person for this job, but I wonder how hard
it would be to do one of the following:

1) Extend the draft-saving facility to have a saved-sent that operates
on the same basis.
2) Have a "pseudo-newsgroup" of pan.internal.sent which any outgoing
posts are automatically added into.
  2a) And then remember that cache-clearing and expiry does not apply
to that group :)

Just throwing some ideas out there. I cannot remember how it was done
in 0.14.x as I never used the facility (my posts always come back to
me in the newsgroup I post it to :) )

Cheers,
Steve