Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths

On 2025-01-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/23/25 2:22 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/22/25 2:05 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/21/25 1:43 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:

On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
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build us a perfect Pan version

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Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI!  You know I can't post witout a GUI
Momma!

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Distro Pan hard to use.  Forte Agent under Wine very nice.

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Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
high school Visual Basic project.

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Well, it's not slrn, but I thought it was pretty good when I ran it several
years ago. It reminded a lot of Xnews, which is what I used way back in my
Windows' days.

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Much like a Visual Basic project, it does the job. I'm not a fan of its
filter system, but it is otherwise lean and useful.

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Pan's filter system is pretty much like slrn's — it's pretty powerful.

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Sure, but not user-friendly in the least. You can figure out how to
configure it through a series of searches on the Internet, but most of
what you would want to do can't be done from within the program. Much of
it requires you to edit the configuration file and to know, before you
start, what patterns to use to get things accomplished. At least in
Thunderbird's case, it works without any confusion. It still has that
bug that the filters won't work until you unsubscribe and resubscribe to
a group, but otherwise it's perfect.

 
After looking up slrn vs Pan filters, I found out that (although the filters
look a lot alike) there are two different "interpreters" at work. Slrn uses
something called S-Lang while Pan uses something PCRE. Apparently simple
filters will interchange, but the more complicated ones won't. Or something
like that...
 
https://news.software.readers.narkive.com/k3fYPwcP/pan-and-slrn-score-files-the-difference
 
So I guess that's that. Although I found both Pan and slrn filters can be
auto-generated (mostly) and what I couldn't figure out in slrn, could be
solved an Internet search that provided the answer fairly quickly. I would
have to know more about what filters you're creating in Thunderbird to know
if the filter was easily reproducible in slrn.

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It doesn't matter since I have no interest in using a CLI tool to
navigate through Usenet anyway. Additionally, it would reveal to the
people I'm filtering _how_ I'm doing it, so they would easily circumvent
those filters.

I understand that. That's why I don't post the filter that I think does the
job for me. But CLI is better (just saying). :)

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