[Pan-users] Why doesn't Pan download articles?

[Zorrox]

I just went from Pan 0.11.2 to 0.12.1, and the same issue is still
dogging me. That is, of the 9 newsgroups I've subscribed to, only two
have the most recent days postings. The rest of them have only articles
up to 9/1/2002, a day, almost two, behind. Every time I tell Pam to
Download New Articles or any of the likely candidates for initiating a
download, the queue indicator grows but that's all that happens. Like
now the queue says something like Tasks: 0/32. The task manager shows a
large list of queued items, with none running. The connection to the
internet is fine. I've tried a lot of news reader and this is pretty
basic behavior to be stumped by...