[Pan-users] Re: Bold Header Pane

[Lenroc]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:25:49 +0100, Vigil wrote:

> For example, I load Pan and look in the alt.os.linux.slackware group to
> see anything what's new. I read some messages, and close Pan. I open Pan
> later and look in alt.uk.law. The new messages here, that I have not seen,
> half of them are bold and half are not. Those that aren't bold are still
> new to me, but because they aren't bold, I assume that I have looked at
> this group before and noted them already and dismissed them as
> uninteresting or whatever. The bold ones are new only to this session,
> even though I never looked in this newsgroup the last session, and all new
> messages since before then ought to be bold.
> 
> There should be distinction, or rather, Pan should not mark a group as
> having been seen until it has actually been clicked on and seen, since I
> don't read every group every time I open Pan.

It sounds like you have the option "Download new headers from subscribed
groups when starting Pan" enabled. The default is off, IIRC, and this
sounds like it would suit you better.

This way, Pan would only get new headers when you visit the group.

-- 
Lenroc