You may be storing all your downloaded articles and not cleaning them out occasionally. Changing the amount of time the article files(and the references to them in the database) are stored can make a huge difference in performance.

Under GroupList > Settings > Article, play around with the Remove Article Files After Close, Remove Articles From Database After X Days, and Only Store Unread Articles In The Database options. Unless there is a pressing reason to continually store old articles, purging them from the database after a few days should improve the performance of the program as it loads(not to mention saving space on your hard drive!).

This is not a bug, it is a "missing" feature("missing" in that it was never there to begin with). It is under consideration for a future update.

This is a limitation imposed by OS/2's handling of its own controls. Try relocating the window on screen to fit additional newsgroups.

Some newsreaders ignore Internet RFC's and "force" character set translation. PlusPak: PMINews(as currently implemented) complies with the appropriate standards for translation. However, it is possible that an option will be added in the future to "force" this setting for those users that require it.

This is a known issue, but we have yet to develop a solution that is acceptable in terms of the performance impact the "easy" workaround would have. More news as it becomes available.

We are working on it for a future update. See the next item for some additional information.

We think we have developed a fix for this problem that will be intergrated into a future update. Short version: there are some additional commands that can be passed to the server to inform it that the user will be reading online and to not disconnect them.

We are still trying to track down exactly why this occurs, but the working theory right now is that there is a memory allocation problem relating to large groups(generally ones with thousands of messages, though it varies).

Besides actually fixing the problem, a future update should also add a "Only download XXX headers" option to limit downloads when you do not want to grab all 14,000 messages in a group. Please hang in there while we try to get this resolved.

This is a limitation imposed by the OS/2 control being used to display the information. At the moment, there is no easy way to permanently fix this. (For those customers who have suggested using a tree metaphor, there are enough problems with that approach that it probably will not happen.)

Fortunately, any newsgroups that are not listed can be displayed by using the "funnel filter" below the newsgroup listing to only display(for example) groups that begin with 'R'.

Check to see if GroupList > Settings > > News > Download Headers On Demand is checked. If this setting is checked, uncheck it and see it "problem" persists. In reality, when this setting is checked, the program is working correctly. This feature was added to speed up operations for users who did not want to wait for all their newsgroups to refresh before being able to work. They can selectively download headers(and later articles) only in those groups that they want to deal with at the moment.

This is a known problem, though it is not occurring in all cases. There is no workaround at the moment(other than manually deleting any .ART files in the ARTICLES directory that are obviously older than what the database purge settings should allow).

This is a known problem. The "solution" is simply to restart PlusPak: PMINews after the connection to the ISP has been reestablished. Unfortunately, depending on how you work with the program, this will lose any messages you have marked to download(though technically the program is working as designed, as it does not currently supposed to save the state of marked messages between sessions).

Unfortunately, adding the ability for users to create their own folders adds an enormous amount of complexity to the way the code for those functions must be handled(read: a feature like this will probably not happen in a 1.0x update). There are several reasons behind this, but the explanation is more technical than it is worth going into here.

Purely as an FYI, PlusPak: PMINews' integration with PMMail is such that users can drag articles to PMMail folders and sort them there.

This function only works in Offline mode(PMINews > General > Offline Mode).