----- Original Message ----- From: "Beartooth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 14:39 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:17 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >> David Shochat <[email protected]> posted >> [email protected], excerpted below, on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 >> 23:13:29 +0000: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:06:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >>> >>>> I signed up for an individual giganews account, and immediately went >>>> to full activation, forgoing the "free trial"; but I get two error >>>> messages from Pan when I try to post -- first one saying >>>> >>>> Warning: The posting profile's server doesn't carry newsgroup >>>> "alt.appalachian". >>> It looks to me like giganews DOES carry that group. Are you sure that >>> the posting profile you have associated with alt.appalachian names >>> news.giganews.com for "post articles via"? >> >> Hi David and Beartooth. This was my first thought as well. Check that >> the posting profile used is set to post to giganews. > > I seem to have misunderstood something. I know giganews carries > a.a, because I followed it for years with a Verizon account, when Verizon > subcontracted news to them. > > What I failed to realize was that my profile chooses the > newsfeed. This is going to get tiresome: I follow far too many groups, > however cursorily, to have a profile for each. I had unthinkingly > supposed, as I should not have done, that Pan would not only read from, > but post to, each group using primary servers first; I may have to > upgrade my giganews account. > > But, fwiw, the post I sent to a.a went from a Motzarella profile, > precisely because the giganews on failed repeatedly. > > Funny how I can think a thing, and not think it, at the same time > -- presumably with different parts of what it amuses me to call my mind... Verizon has been my ISP since 1999 and then and now has had their own news servers. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
