[Pan-users] Feature requests

[Hans Verkuil]

First I want to say that Pan is probably the best news reader that I've used, 
and I've tried a few. But even the best can be made better and there are two 
features that I miss:

The first feature request concerns the directory for saving attachments. By 
default they go to News/Pan, or to the directory you supply yourself. I'd 
really like to see a checkbox to set the default to News/<groupname>. I'm 
pretty sure I've come across a similar feature in another newsreader and I 
think it makes a lot of sense. I don't want to manually supply every group 
with its own save directory.

The second feature request is less important, just something to make things a 
bit easier: when downloaded attachments of a set of messages I want to 
continue with other groups while the download takes place in the background. 
You can tell Pan to reserve a connection for reading messages, but you cannot 
use that same reserved connection for downloading the latest headers. Instead 
you have to wait until one of the background downloads has finished. A 
checkbox 'Also use reserved connection to download new headers' is just what 
I'd like to see.

Thank you for a great newsreader!

                Hans Verkuil