Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Hendrik Boom said...
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:24:03PM +0100, marc wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying 
> > out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a 
> > couple of flaws that I can't live with.
> 
> One that hits me is that it seems to retain headers forever.  In
> particular, long after their messages are unavailable from the
> upstream source.  Is there any way of getting it to delete headers
> for messages that are no longer available?

Purging is a weakness I found in Pan, and I mentioned this in another 
reply to this thread.

Automatic deletion of expired articles is very useful for binary 
download groups, but a nightmare for those of us who use their 
newsreader as a repository of (text) information.

For this reason, I use a different newsreader to manage binary 
downloads. To be honest, I think that these are two very separate tasks 
that simply happen to be sourced from the protocol. As such, they 
deserve two different approaches, and hence two different tools. I've 
seen more than one project hit the rails due to the author trying to 
cater for both needs. No one expects a mail reader to be a word 
processor - except M$ - nor a wordprocessor to be a mail reader - except 
M$. QED :-)
 
> Maybe this would be easy to answer if I could find any usable
> documentation ,,,

The perennial Linux weakness :-(

-- 
Best,
Marc