Re: [pan] Articles not marked as read
- From: Dan C <youmustbejoking@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 01 Nov 2008 19:55:52 GMT
On 2008-10-31, Dan C wrote:
Having a strange issue with Pan (0.14.2.91). On a new account I have with
Astraweb, all new posts (in any group) are not marked as "read" as I move
through them with the "N" key. I can read an entire group's new posts,
and not a single one of them will get marked as read. I can, however,
mark them as read individually (M key), or mark the whole group read (with
Ctrl-Shift-M). There is no setting in Pan for this, and it has always
worked (and still does work) on other servers I use. It is specific to
posts on the Astraweb server.
Another oddity: If I make a post from Astraweb, and then view it with
another server (Cox), I see the same behavior as noted above. The post
does not get marked as read after I read it. The *really* strange thing
is that replies to that post (by other people), as viewed by me on the Cox
server, *also* no longer get marked after reading. Again, I can mark
any/all of them manually.
Any ideas what is causing this weirdness? I have removed the server and
all posts/indexes from the .pan folder, re-subscribed, and the behavior
remains the same. Quite baffling... Any help appreciated.
An update to my own post... I have isolated this strange behavior to
something being wrong with Old Pan. I used the situation to motivate me
to upgrade to the new version of slrn (using it now), and have also been
trying out the latest Pan (0.133). I went as far as removing the entire
..pan directory, and completely setting up Old Pan again, and the
weirdness was still there. With slrn and New Pan, things behave
normally. I really have no idea what could possibly cause that, and am
probably going to move to New Pan as a result (with the occasional use
of slrn). I do find New Pan somewhat lacking, mostly it's lack of
"folders" to save posts to, and see sent posts. Also the scoring is
different, although I have discovered that it uses ~/News/Score as it's
scorefile, and that location is not changeable. Not a huge problem, as
it seems to use this file (shared with slrn) just fine. I also don't
like the graphical display of threads as well as Old Pan, but it seems
to be usable and I'll probably get used to it soon enough.
I feel a little sad to move away from Old Pan. RIP, friend.
--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
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