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Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly

From	SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Subject	Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Organization	blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date	2018-09-27 15:41 +0000

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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:04:30 -0400, Sam O'Nella wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:57:49 GMT, SilverSlimer wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:45:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/26/2018 8:37 AM, SilverSlimer wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Truly a piece of crap... just saying. :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Why not (heh) slrn?  You should really wrap your arms around Linux and
>>> embrace the 70s and 80s.  Like owl does.
>>> 
>>> Does the current Pan have context-sensitive menus?  Last I checked
>>> they had barely implemented them (meaning most menu choices were
>>> available at all times).  Real impressive.
>> 
>> I don't know what happened to my own setup of Pan but it really does
>> ake a while to load and often treats posts I've read as unread even
>> though it shows that they've been downloaded. It's still usable though.
>> 
>> As for things like slrn, I'm sure I would have adopted software like
>> that and alpine if I used modest hardware like what I had back in the
>> day but nowadays, it just seems pointless. I doubt it would allow me to
>> do anything better.
> 
> Pan is complete crap.
> How many times do you load it up and it doesn't even d/l new messages
> but then you restart it and the new messages suddenly appear?
> 
> Complete garbage.

Yeah, it's not too great but it gets the job done in the end. I also 
think it's the only Usenet reader I've used which loads the 2-bit images 
some posters have attached to their Usenet identities. 



-- 
SilverSlimer
FSF Contributor / EFF Member / Free speech advocate
Absolute centrist, proud Catholic

Thread

Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-26 12:37 +0000
  Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 19:45 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-26 23:56 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-26 20:29 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-09-27 01:03 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 07:24 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-27 08:16 -0500
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:53 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-27 12:13 -0400
    Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 00:57 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Sam O'Nella <poison@donteatit.net> - 2018-09-26 21:04 -0400
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 15:41 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:29 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:31 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:06 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:22 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-29 01:12 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-29 01:21 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-28 20:30 -0700
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:23 +0000
      Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-27 20:22 +0000
        Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-27 22:27 +0000
          Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 04:25 +0000
            Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-28 18:05 +0000
              Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 20:25 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2018-09-28 22:19 +0000
                Re: Pan takes forever to open, never closes properly Brick <brick@mortar.invalid> - 2018-09-28 22:23 +0000

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