[Pan-users] Re: server priority and completeless : EXAMPLE

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:25 -0700, Alan Meyer wrote:

> Alan Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Although I prefer using a news server to using a web server, there are
>> web interfaces to news that you might use as a last resort.
>> ...
> 
> Although there are things I like better about Pan, you can also connect
> to Motzarella with Thunderbird, the free Mozilla email and news client. 
> If you see messages in Thunderbird that you can't see in Pan, then it's
> probably a Pan problem.  If the problem appears in both Thunderbird and
> Pan, then it's either a Motzarella problem or a problem with the
> original message sent by the original poster (or the server he
> originally posted to).
> 
> If you see the problem in Google too, it seems very clearly to be a
> problem with the original message, not anything at your end or
> Motzarella's.

        Well, those are the only even faintly tempting arguments I've 
ever encountered in favor of any web interface; I might stick a toe in, 
just in hope of locating the trouble.

        But I'm pretty sure most of the groups/lists that interest me 
refuse binaries; several even refuse html, or at least cuss out anybody 
who uses it.

        Fwiw, I just went back to rec.guns, and tested ten of the problem 
posts. Each one still got the "incomplete" error. And each, when right-
clicked, failed to respond to the Read Article choice. So I have twenty 
more copies, all in a row, of that error. And I'm pretty sure rec.guns 
doesn't tolerate binaries; I've certainly never seen any there.


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