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Re: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble
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Travis |
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Re: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble |
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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:44:39 -0700 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 16:41 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble
> Beartooth <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
> 21:39:10 +0000:
>
>> 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.
>
> You don't need a posting profile for each group. You do need at least
> one profile for each server you intend to post from. Once you have one,
> if the other details are fine, you can select that profile for all the
> groups. Once you setup a profile to post from giganews, all you should
> need to do is ensure it is selected for the first post from every group
> you intend to post to from giganews.
>
>> But, fwiw, the post I sent to a.a went from a Motzarella profile,
>> precisely because the giganews on failed repeatedly.
>
> Have you checked your giganews account, not to upgrade it, but to see if
> there's an option you need to set to post from it?
>
> Back when I had newshosting, they had an option that controlled whether
> you could post from that account or not. Many binary users don't want to
> post, only to download, and in fact would be embarrassed if they
> accidentally sent a post to whatever pr0n group they're downloading, thus
> the option. This keeps such accidents from happening by default, but it
> was easy enough to turn the posting flag on when I actually wanted to
> post. IDR whether it was a mail I had to send to a special address or an
> option I had to toggle on the site but once it's set to allow posting,
> the next time you login, it should allow it.
>
> I'm not sure if giganews has a similar option or not but it would explain
> not being able to post to the group using a profile set to do so.
I use Giganews and never had to do anything special to post to the groups I
read.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington