[Pan-users] Conceptual problems with the "watch" feature.

[Maurizio Colucci]

Hello,

Could somebody please explain what is the rationale behind Pan's "watch 
thread" feature?

As a former user of Forte Agent, I thought the purpose of the watch feature is 
to automatically download bodies from the watched thread, while continuing to 
download only the headers from the other threads.

In my experience, I choose to download only the headers for most groups. But 
very often I find a thread which is particularly interesting, and want to 
tell Pan to automatically download BODIES for the FUTURE followups of that 
thread----while continuing to download only the headers for the other 
threads.

Of course, the watch feature is useless if at least one of those conditions is 
true: 

1) you have a permanent connection to the internet (online reading);

2) you read offline, but you usually download bodies for all new messages. 

Unfortunately, none of these conditions are true for me, thus I need the watch 
feature.

Now, the problem is that in my tests the watch feature didn't always seem to 
work as I illustrated. Sometimes it downloads bodies, sometimes not, and I 
can't understand the logic.

Maybe it downloads bodies only if I am the author, or if I posted at least 
once on that thread?

Would somone please tell me the precise behavior of the program? :-)

Thank you very much,

Maurizio Colucci