[Pan-users] Re: posting problem

[Bruce Bowler]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:13:11 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> 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.

Correct and not correct.  I have thought about it a bit and while it's
nice to be able to have a split personality, it shouldn't be a
*requirement* if you use more than one news server.

pan "knows" which server it gets each group from so, by default, it should
use that server to post to.

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