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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 21:17 +0000
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On 2025-01-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 1/23/25 2:22 AM, RonB wrote:
>> 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 β€” 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.
>
> It doesn't matter since I have no interest in using a CLI tool to 
> navigate through Usenet anyway. Additionally, it would reveal to the 
> people I'm filtering _how_ I'm doing it, so they would easily circumvent 
> those filters.

I understand that. That's why I don't post the filter that I think does the 
job for me. But CLI is better (just saying). :)

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

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  To the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-20 14:23 +0000
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      Re: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆTo the distro lackey (was: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths)πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ 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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