On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:32:29 +0000, Duncan wrote:

>> In slrn it was possible to add news groups one at a time by simply
>> pressing "A" (iirc) and typing the group's name.
>> 
>> Is anything like that possible in the Brave New Pan?
> 
> Not directly -- to my knowledge.
> 
> What you /can/ do is edit the appropriate newsrc file, either by importing
> a compatible newsrc (as newsrc-1 -2 -3, or whatever, in the ~/.pan2 dir
> by default) or by creating/editing the newsrc directly (with pan closed,
> of course).

Thanks.  That worked pretty well.  I was trying to avoid downloading the
groups list from gmane - Pan 0.117 spent nearly 20 minutes 'downloading'
well over 200,000 group names (on a dialup).  That just _can't_ be right.



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