Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-19 Thread Fred Fraley
On Friday 15 August 2003 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x > days? I can't find it. > > Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the pan-users mailing list. If you don't want to get swamped with the list (15-20/day), just post the question and f

[expert] MSEC - edit perm.xx or create perm.local?

2002-04-26 Thread Fred Fraley
I have a single machine, no local network, with a broadband (cable modem) connection. Using msec,level 3, which uses a default umask of 022. Is there any reason to create a perm.local file rather than simply edit the settings in the /usr/share/msec/perm.xx files? I want to ch

[expert] Fwd: [newbie] msec settings

2002-04-26 Thread Fred Fraley
I have a single machine, no local network, with a broadband (cable modem) connection. Using msec,level 3, which uses a default umask of 022. Is there any reason to create a perm.local file rather than simply edit the settings in the /usr/share/msec/perm.xx files? I want to chan

[expert] Chat list?

2002-03-14 Thread Fred Fraley
There have been some wonderful threads on both the expert and newbie lists in the last few days. I have to agree, though, with a couple of users who were frustrated in wading through everything to get to the tech threads. It seems there is a real desire for a chance to deal wit

[expert] Chat list?

2002-03-14 Thread Fred Fraley
There have been some wonderful threads on both the expert and newbie lists in the last few days. I have to agree, though, with a couple of users who were frustrated in wading through everything to get to the tech threads. It seems there is a real desire for a chance to deal wit

[expert] need xmessage,or xmkmf, or imake,

2002-03-13 Thread Fred Fraley
One of those simple things that becomes worse at every step of the way. Since installing 8.2b4, whenever I open wine (Codeweavers) I get a line that xmessage is missing, though things still work. So I DL'd xmessage.tar, which was a longer search than I anticipated. Untar

[expert] Re: Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-13 Thread Fred Fraley
I think the misconception here is what users are, or should be, paying for. I bet most of you eat seafood that did not cost the commercial fisherman anything. All he had to do was buy the tools and take the time to harvest the free stuff. I'll leave that to him, gladly, and pay