On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:13:04 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: > walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ...Pan treats a subscribed group with *no* >>articles the same as a new group. This happens only when you 'delete' >>all articles on leaving the group. (Not the same as marking the group >>as 'read')... > > ...stop deleting the articles > and start marking the group as read instead...
You may be surprised to hear that I actually agree with everything you said :o) I started 'deleting' articles in large binary groups (only) so long ago that I'd forgotten why I do it. Now I remember I did it the first time because I needed a bit more disk space in the middle of downloading a large .iso image and I was shocked to find that just the *headers* of five binaries groups took up almost a gig of disk space. I 'deleted' all of the articles in those five groups and then had enough room to finish the download. I just got in the habit of doing it, but it really isn't necessary if you allocate your disk space properly. I do agree with Duncan that pop-ups which are unneeded 9 times out of 10 really should be voluntary instead of compulsive. The principle of least irritation should prevail, IMO. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
