Re: options to set correct posting profiles and delete groups not on servers

On 10/30/24 8:14 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:44:21 -0000 (UTC), David Chmelik wrote:
>
>> I used to use four newsservers with Pan.  One closed, and another I
>> stopped paying for because was mostly dead.  I suspect Pan kept their
>> newsrc entries despite I deleted those servers.  Would it be possible to
>> add option to delete newsgroups unlisted in any newsservers one still
>> uses?  I subscribed to 1,500+ so it's impractical to start over to do
>> so.
>>
>> I use Gmane (second on my list).  However, Pan, for some reason, set
>> Gmane newsgroup posting profiles all to Eternal September, so I have to
>> continually (re)set.  There should be option if you add newsserver with
>> more groups, set their posting profiles to that server.
> An option would be to look in ~/.pan2/newsrc-* and just remove the newsrc
> files that are for the specific servers you want to remove from the
> configuration.
Maybe I edited or copied over one of those.  Does 'refresh groups list' 
regenerate it without ones that don't exist?
> If you look at servers.xml, you can see which newsrc file corresponds to
> which server.  If you've already deleted the servers from the
> configuration, just look at the remaining servers and delete the newsrc
> files that aren't represented in that file, and you should be good. to go.


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