[Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:17 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> David Shochat <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, 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...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.