[Pan-users] Re: How do I get a header count for all groups?

[Jim Henderson]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:01:39 -0700, Travis wrote:

> I would assume (I know I shouldn't) that some one told you about the
> group in the first place as opposed to you surfing the 100,000 + groups
> that are available.  So just go to the selected group.

Bad assumption; usually (at least for me), I'm interested in a subject, 
so I go looking through an abbreviated list of the groups that have 
keywords in their name that I'm looking for.  Like if I'm looking for 
groups on Linux, I'll filter a server's list using the word "Linux", but 
if I then want to see what group is an active group (a good indicator 
that it might be a good starting place), knowing how many messages are in 
the group provides a good way of knowing.

Old-Pan used to give the total number of messages in the group along with 
the number of messages that are unread.

Your last statement is a bit confusing - how is the usefulness of a 
function at all related to the difficulty of implementing it?  Either 
it's useful or it's not; either it's difficult to implement or it's not.  
The two have no relation to each other.  Useless functionality can be 
difficult or easy to implement; useful functionality can also be easy or 
difficult to implement.

Jim