[Pan-users] Re: Pan and newsplex (read articles not marked as read)

[ivanova]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:55:40 -0700, Duncan wrote:

>> Like the title says - I'm using newsplex with pan on linux and when I
>> read articles in the async group, it is not marked as read.
> 
> PAN tracks read/unread by the per-group x-ref header number, which is
> the responsibility of the server.  Any server which doesn't use that
> sort of numbering isn't going to allow PAN to track read/unread on it.
> 
> One possible solution would be to run your own news server, INN or
> whatever, letting it number messages, and have PAN connect to it instead
> of directly to the main news server.  You could then turn down PAN's
> cache, and let your local news server do the caching that PAN used to
> do.

Thanks for your excellent response ;) I'm using leafnode now - all is
well.