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Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths

From	RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths
Date	2025-01-23 07:22 +0000
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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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> build us a perfect Pan version
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI!  You know I can't post witout a GUI
>>>>>>> Momma!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Distro Pan hard to use.  Forte Agent under Wine very nice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
>>>>> high school Visual Basic project.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Pan's filter system is pretty much like slrn's — it's pretty powerful.
>
> 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. 

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-20 12:29 +0000
  To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:23 +0000
    Re: 🏳️‍🌈To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths)🏳️‍🌈 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈Jen🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 Dershmender 💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🐶笛🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 <root@127.0.0.1>  - 2025-01-20 14:29 +0000
      Re: 🏳️‍🌈To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths)🏳️‍🌈 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:40 +0000
    Re: To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-20 14:32 +0000
      Re: To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:47 +0000
  Re: Translation: (was: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 14:37 +0000
    Re: Translation: Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 14:45 +0000
    Re: Translation: CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 09:53 -0500
      Re: Translation: Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-20 16:03 +0000
        Re: Translation: CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 11:28 -0500
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 13:14 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-20 15:03 -0500
      Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-20 15:21 -0500
        Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-21 06:43 +0000
          Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-21 08:43 -0500
            Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-22 07:05 +0000
              Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-22 08:38 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-22 18:36 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-22 15:00 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:27 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:25 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-23 07:55 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 07:22 +0000
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-23 08:48 -0500
                Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 21:17 +0000
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 13:22 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 19:31 +0000
      Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 16:37 -0500
    Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-01-20 20:48 +0000
  Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 16:36 -0500

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