Group: news.software.readers
From: Blinky the Shark
Date: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Pan in Linux

Gene E Bloch wrote:
> On 8/01/2007, Blinky the Shark posted this:
>> Top wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:33:09 +0000, Charles Kerr wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:32:28 +0000, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> XS11E wrote:
>>>>>> Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Personally I rank Knode behind slrn and Pan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You wouldn't if you'd used the new Pan.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not about to downgrade to the new version. :)
>>>>
>>>> I realize I'm a month late to this thread, but... what's so much worse
>>>> about the newer versions of Pan?
>>>>
>>>> Charles
>>>
>>> Missing features. Scoring is a bit different. Set up has changed. Some
>>> things maybe changed before ver. is released but till then I'm
>>> sticking with the old . Go to / to get a
>>> better view of what I've said.
>>
>> ...then after you install it immediately lose The Stupid Phrase from the
>> User-Agent header. :)
>
> Shows how dumb I am. That's one of the reasons I stopped trying to
> figure out how to use pan on this Mac. Had I known (or guessed) that

:)

> there was a way lose that phrase, I would've had one fewer reason to
> abandon the quest :-)

I trust you saw my UA header.

Two ways to go...

I've always hacked the binary. Not too long ago someone else pointed
out (in here, I presume) that if you set a custom UA header it will be
used instead of the hard-coded silly one.


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