[Pan-users] Offline mode trouble

[Molotov]

Hello all

At first, I would like to thank you all for the great work done with 
Pan. I have been using it for years with the stable branch, and I 
switched to the 'weekly betas' months ago: Pan goes better and better, I 
would not consider using another newsgrabber.
I have still a problem anyway. I use GigaNews servers with the max 
connections set to 10. I have noticed that, sometimes, something is 
broken in the connection pool (I cannot say if it is really Pan-related, 
it can be a network problem) and Pan tries to open another connection 
when the news server thinks the 10 are still up. So, the 11th connection 
is refused by the server in such case. The problem is that Pan 
automatically switches to offline mode, letting the remaining 
connections close quickly. If I am not here to switch back to online 
mode, nothing else is done.
So, has anybody faced the same trouble ? Is there a solution to tell Pan 
not to go offline in such case ?

Thanks in advance

Francois