[Pan-users] Kill-file: no "mark as read"?

[Graham Peter Davis]

In other news-readers I've used, it's possible to "kill-file" someone by 
setting their postings to "mark as read". I can't find such a setting in 
Pan. Is there one?

I find the (seeming?) lack of this option irritating for two reasons:

(1) If I have Pan set to not display kill-filed postings, the news-group 
may indicate that there are a number of unread messages but have no 
headers displayed. My first reaction is that the database is somehow 
corrupted - a common problem I had with another popular newsreader whose 
name is withheld to protect the guilty - before I guess that it's due to 
kill-filed postings. 

(2) If I set the display to show the kill-filed postings, clicking on 
"next unread article" will eventually land me on a kill-filed post. This 
rather defeats the object of the exercise.

If it isn't already there but I haven't seen it, could "mark as read" be 
added as an option? To be honest though, I don't see the point of not 
marking kill-filed postings as read so why not automatically mark all 
such postings as read?

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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man
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