[Pan-users] Re: Connections [Is it hiding a security hole?]

[Greg Lee]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:41:33 +0000, Duncan wrote:

>  I'm guessing what you failed to realize is
> that pan only loads the file at pan start, and rewrites the file when
> it's shutdown.  Naturally, therefore, if you edited the file
> (effectively behind pan's back) while pan was open, all your changes
> will be overwritten when it's closed since pan knew nothing of them.

Yeah, yeah.  That's the kind of comment I got when I
reported this problem earlier.  But I didn't "fail to
realize" anything.  Pan changed my 8 back to 4.  It doesn't
do that any more.  I just now, as an experiment, quit Pan,
changed the max from 8 to 20, and started Pan up again.  It's
still 20, and evidently Pan honored my request to change the
max, because I saw "Tasks: 13/33" in the task bar when I
asked it to read headers for all my subscribed groups.

-- 
Greg