[Pan-users] Dealing with huge numbers of messages in a newsgroup

[Wilbur Pan]

I'm using Pan and using Giganews as my news server.  There are some groups 
with huge numbers of messages -- close to 1,500,000, in fact.  I've 
determined that I can set up Pan to load the 450,000 newest messages without 
my computer locking up on me.  However, I can't seem to get to the older 
messages.

I tried downloading 450,000 messages, then marking them read, then asking 
for another 450,000 messages, but the program seems to just lock up or 
reloads the first batch of messages.

I've got 512 MB of RAM, so it's a decent amount of memory, and my computer 
dual boots into Windows and Linux.  I've tried running Pan in both Windows 
and Linux.

Any suggestions?