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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:22:58 -0000 (UTC)
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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 — 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. 

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