Re: [Pan-users] Inefficiencies in Pan threading?

[Brad Sims]

On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:21 am, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> By the way, I really like the fact that Pan seems to prioritize user
> interactions with the news server over download traffic.  Namely, if I
> want to grab a list of article headers, it queues these up ahead of any
> downloads, so that the next chance it gets, Pan downloads the headers
> immediately. Other newsreader programs seem to get this wrong and force
> the user to manually wrestle with his task queue if he wants the headers
> right away.. :).

One other useful feature is the "Add to top of queue" vs just sticking
them at the bottom of the list <g>.

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