[Pan-users] Re: posting problem

[walt]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:24:22 -0600, Charles Kerr wrote:

> How do other multiserver Usenet clients handle this?

The only one I have is Agent 3.1 (which I never use except for
occasions like this :o)

When you set up Agent for the first time you fill out a 'Default
News Access Plan' dialog box, which presents you with three tabs:
one for Downloading Headers, one for Downloading Bodies, and one
for Posting Articles.

Each tab presents you with an ordered list of all of your news
servers.  Each server can be (de)selected, and moved up or down
in priority.  (Each of the three tabs is completely independent.)

In addition, you select between several options like 'use only
the first server' or 'use all servers' or 'use servers known to
carry the newsgroup'.

This is extremely flexible because it is complex -- and for a
newbie it would be mildly overwhelming, IMO.

At the time you subscribe to a newsgroup (Agent calls this
step 'creating a folder' which is already very confusing) you
are presented with a similar dialog box, allowing you to
override the Defaults I described above if you wish.  Again,
very flexible, but not very newbie-friendly.

After all this, you still have only one 'identity' for posting,
although you can edit the 'From' line each time you post -- if
you can remember to do it  :o(

All in all, I much prefer the way pan2 does it.  I think that
having a selectable, ordered list of news servers for each
newsgroup is a nice touch, but not super important.

I think making pan's error message more informative is far
easier and way more important.

Thanks, Charles!