Re: [Pan-users] Re: icons

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 4:49 am, Duncan wrote:
>
> Are you sure they are puzzle pieces and not envelopes?  
>
100% positive. I can send you a screenshot, if you'd like.
>
> Red and green 
> puzzle pieces are incomplete and complete binaries.  A white envelope is
> normally used for a text post.[1]  At resolutions making the icons tiny
> enough, however, it's not easy to distinguish between an envelope and a
> puzzle piece, so that might be the mixup.  It's also possible there are
> gray puzzle pieces, however, and I've just never paid that close attention
> when they were shown, in which case I'm not sure either.
>
>
I'm wondering if they don't indicate cached messages or something... because 
after multiple failures by my ISP's nntp server, I've closed and reopened PAN 
multiple times and each time there are more gray puzzle pieces. *shrug*