Well, it entertained me ;-) Perhaps there's a deeper message in there, or perhaps there isn't.

From: "Charles Kerr" charles@skywalker.ou.edu Subject: Re: Linux newsgroup problems Newsgroups: freeserve.help.unix Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:25:28 -0600

In article 87ofytqlbw.fsf@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk, "MJ Ray" markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

"Garry Knight" garryknight@bigfoot.com writes:

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I was going to try it one day, but I downloaded the latest version of Pan (0.92) and it downloads articles direct from the news server like greased lightning. Well worth the upgrade.

That's new in 0.92? Boy, what did it do before? ;-)

Downloading articles from the news server is new in 0.9.2 -- in 0.9.1 and older, you had to telnet directly into port 119 and get the messages yourself and then feed them into Pan, which would often thread them correctly.

It's also great to see that Garry is also using Pan's new "post" feature! I had worried that the fourteen-step process would be too complicated but it seems my fears were groundless.

In addition to all this innovation, the next version of Pan will have a spam filter code-named "delete key". To find out more, visit our website at http://www.superpimp.org/