[Pan-users] documentation for dummies

[Michael L Coburn]

I'd really like to use this thing, but I can't find any documentation on
how to use it.  I say a post somewhere about the possibility of a wiki
for documentation and it has what I thought was a pretty good starting
arrangement.  Whatever happened to that?

I'd like to put together some rules that would allow me to mark all read
other then my own posts in whatever group I am reviewing at present.  It
seems of late that my posts are getting lost in the ether or I am so far
wrong that people do not respond or so damned right that I can get no
debate.  I post in alt.politics.economics and sci.econ as The Trucker
and there are usually plenty of insulting know it alls to jump on any
mistake so as to belittle the poster.  Real big egos in those groups.  

I can't seem to find older posts either and I get the impression that
there is some sort of parameter that I can adjust to determine how long
the stuff I receive is kept around.  But then it seems that maybe the
filter is applied to the search also such that I can't look for stuff
unless I open the filter to see already read posts.  That's sorta lame.
The google groups search stuff seems crappy too.  And there are no
documents for it either that I can find.  Maybe I just don't know how to
find anything any more.  I am getting old and my IQ is down to 133 so
perhaps I should just stay a way from a keyboard.

Any help on where to find USER documentation would be appreciated.