On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:52:04 -0600, Dan C wrote this:

> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:29:47 +0000, SINNER wrote:
>
>>>> Nice. I did not know pan had themes/skins, I will be looking into
>>>> this, find some themes/skins for pan. Thank you.
>
>>> I wouldn't hold your breath. That news item he quoted above is from
>>> May 22, 2000. That's right, nearly SEVEN YEARS ago. It's not gonna
>>> happen.
>
>> While I agree it might feel that way now, Pan seemed stagnant for some
>> time and has suddenly gained some momentum, so I wouldn't count it out
>> just yet.
>
> The "momentum" is not necessarily in the positive direction. The newer
> versions are quite lacking in configuration options as compared to the
> 0.14.2.x versions. Supposedly faster and use less memory, but that
> doesn't outweigh options and stability, in my book.
>
> The last "good" version of Pan was 0.14.2.91, IMHO.

Yeah, been using the new version 0.120. It lacks the strong filter/rule
set of the 0.14.92 and the ability to separate newsservers but the memory
usage is much better.

For exampe, the new filters require lots of work and you can't use them
to simply delete records. I have to score those I want, hide those
scored then delete all articles not hidden.

The idea of consolidating servers sounds good but not so good when using
multiple servers and one of them has a download limit. Ie, Pan 0.120
doesn't care if you don't want to download articles from a particular
server or not.

Download speed is variable, sometimes it stops in the middle of download.
Still a better with the memory, 0.14.92 chokes about 200,000 article
headers but 0.120 goes to 800,000 before choking. If no other processes
are running maybe 2 mil. headers.