Re: Eternal-September

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:28:28 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

I did download the latest version of Pan installer. It did appear to download and install but looking for "Pan"shows me nothing more than the installer. The problem I had with Mozilla is that it never opened a window into which I could tell it which account to go to. I uninstalled and installed it several times to no effect. Pan sounds better anyway if I can get it to operate since it is a Newsreader only.

It's good to see that you're ignoring my advice and doing your own
thing.

Hiding in plain sight:
   Edit -> Edit_News_Servers
Change:  Address, UserName, Password and nothing else until Pan is
working.

I installed Pan on Linux Mint.  Hopefully, the news server
configuration is the same as whatever version of Windoze you're using.

I was planning on posting a short review of Pan.  Instead of a review,
it's turning into an itemized bug report.  So far, the bugs are all
minor irritations, so nothing to worry about.  I did manage to hang
Pan twice for no obvious reason.  Exit Pan and try again seems to
work.

One bug that might be a problem was that I initially downloaded 100
RBT headers.  That was sufficient to see if things were working.  I
then downloaded 10,300 articles, which brought me everything since Jan
1, 2024.  On initial inspection, all 10,300 headers were present and
accounted for.  However, when I exited and restarted Pan, I was back
to Pan showing only the first 100 headers.  I didn't have much luck
and suspect I might have to wipe all the articles and settings so I
could start over.  Too soon to troubleshoot, complain or both since it
might something I did wrong.

Also, I'm still looking for where the "filters" are hiding.

Mozilla wanted to take over my email account and kept opening email windows.

Thunderbird treats Usenet articles as if they were email.  You might
want to backup your Thunderbird directories and settings before
blundering onward.


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