Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:45:06 +0000:
> What I typically do is just set it to 0-1 and then sort the messages by > date after a new download (you have to make the change while pan isn't > running) and mark up to a certain time as read. > > It seems that "mark all as read" tends to trigger this problem for me. I think you may have something there! This may be why I don't usually see the problem here. I very very seldom use "mark all as read", preferring (for text groups) instead to either have them auto-mark as I read them (if I'm not interested in a thread I'll just click and read to get it auto-marked), or when I'm done with a group, select-all-articles (I remapped my keyboard accelerators so this is easy, ctrl-alt-a), then hit mark-read (m). On the binary groups, when I do them which I haven't for over a year now, IIRC, I go thru picking and choosing download samples, and if I like what I see I download the whole series to cache (which on my binary instance is configured for a 12-gig dedicated partition), marking read and deleting the overviews for spam and series I don't like. Then when everything's in cache so I can work locally, I go thru and decide whether it's worth saving or not, and where to save it if so, again deleting the overviews as I go. When I'm done, I (manually) delete cache, so the only thing pan still has is the article numbers. If I get back before they're all new on the server anyway, it's still tracking them. If not, no problem, and I just download all overviews/headers next time I check the group again. So I very seldom use the mark-all-as-read function, thus never mark to the high-water-mark, so if it's wacky for some reason, I never see it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
