Re: [Pan-users] Re: Old Pan: Cannot see newsgroup 'read' items before March 11

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:17:19 am Maurice wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 08:57:01 Duncan wrote:
> > Old-pan keeps what's on your
> > computer in sync with what's on the server.  If the server expires
> > the messages, next time you download messages for that group,
> > old-pan will delete anything that's not still on the server.
>
>    AAAGGGHHHHH!
>
> So I've lost all the postings that I selective;y kept for future
> reference. (But at least I've still got the postings that I made.)

Before you swap to new Pan, keep in mind that new Pan does *not* save 
copies of your sent posts. Last time I looked, the Pan homepage still 
falsely claimed that it did.

That change alone came within a micrometre of pushing me to another 
newsreader. Yes, I'm still bitter about it.

-- 
Steven