Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan

[Duncan]

Maurice Batey posted on Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:05:37 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:41:58 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Toggle headers on, and look at the path header for a post or two in the
>> group.  That header will have a list of every server the message went
>> thru, the propagation path, including the server pan fetched it from.
> 
>   So, erm, couldn't Pan look in there to indentify the server? :-)

It could, but as I've been saying, there's reason for many to want to 
post followups to a DIFFERENT server (one that doesn't post in-the-clear 
nntp-posting-host headers, for instance).

And of course the mapping between the server pan is actually configured 
to connect to and the host name shown as the newest/left-most in the path 
is at least two indirections as well, one at the server/DNS level that's 
not under pan's control at all, and one at the pan level (where pan 
tracks servers as #1, #2, etc, instead of name.server.tld:port, so the 
user can reconfigure server names if necessary).

Plus, while followups could in theory map (thru some indirection) to the 
server the replied-to-post came in on, that doesn't help for new-thread 
posts at all.

So in the end, it's simply MUCH less complex to configure the desired 
posting server as just another bit of info in the posting profile, and 
select that as desired.

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