Not on topic, but meaningful to me:
I'm using Pan, I like it a lot. But sometimes it deletes a whole message, leaving me replying to nothing at all. I _think_ that it thinks that it's deleting the tagline, as this often happens when there's tagline-ish characters in the first line or two of the message I'm replying to.
I've looked in the meager setup menus, and haven't found anything that looks like a flag to save taglines.
Anyone know how to fix this? Or a better forum to try?
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Or try an older version of Pan as I do because I like it. I assume your using Linux and backward compatibility isn't a problem.
I don't know anything about Pan, but some newsreaders try to delete sigs (which is silly - let the user decide). Maybe Pan thinks it is finding a sig marker early?
Many newsreaders seem to do that, including Thunderbird. For me this happens whenever the news server does not immediately respond. Screen stays blank. Waiting a few minutes until it comes back fixes that and the quote text shows up. When I try to access another gourp right after a blank screen happened I often receive a server time-out message. After I switched to a new news provider this happens a lot less and shorter.
Actually, that's not silly, it's courteous. Normal practice is to not quote sigs when replying to a post. Newsreaders *should* delete sigs -- that's why there's a standard format for a sig delimiter (hyphen, hyphen, space, newline), so that a news client will know what part of the message it shouldn't quote.
I don't know if this is what's happening for you, but if any part of the message is highlighted, the reply window will only contain the highlighted text; the rest of the message will be omitted.
This can be useful to "pre-trim" the message, or if you want to cite the headers or signature.
That's on a reply (where the user should also have control). However some readers, as I understand it, just delete the sigs from the display so the user is never aware of it.
Usually you can control such newsreader behavior via setup or options.
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