The book which I [mostly, because I had to return it before
finishing] read, on 'user interface design', must have been good
because I can now see clearly the faults in pan's interface.
We've got:
Download New headers
Download All headers
Download Recent headers <set counter: default=150>
Which apparently/unwisely defaults to:
Download New headers.
The result apparently being, that if the Group is newly subscribed
and the NewsServer has a million articles dating back 5 years, these
are all 'New' headers, and thus downloaded !!
When faced with an empty group, 0.103 pops up a dialog to ask the
user whether to:
(1) download the last N day's headers,
(2) download all new headers in the group,
(3) download all headers in the group, or
(4) download the newest N headers.
The default value in the dialog is to download
the last 7 days' headers.
cheers,
Charles
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