[Pan-users] Re: posting problem

[Duncan]

walt <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:10:55
+0000:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:32:44 -0500, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> 
>> I use 2 news servers, both primary.  news.individual.net and
>> news.gmane.org.  I was just reading an article in a gmane group and
>> wanted to post to that group.  I composed my message, hit the "send
>> article" button and the following dialog appears.
>> 
>>      There were problems with this post.
>>      Warning: Unknown group "gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user".
> 
> Here's my guess:
> 
> Go to Edit/Group Preferences and check which Posting Profile is listed
> for the pan.users group.
> 
> Now go to Edit/Posting Profiles and check which newsserver is listed for
> 'Post Articles via:' -- maybe you have the wrong server listed there?

Correct.  Select the profile and you are selecting the server you post
thru while using that profile.  If you select a profile set to use a
server that doesn't have the group (or that does but doesn't allow you to
post), well, you get the error you'd likely expect, if you thought about
it a bit.

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