Re: [Pan-users] "no connections"

[Alan Sanderson]

Adam Shrode wrote:

> Adam Shrode wrote:
>
> > Bob W. Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:03:14 +0200, Tim Kynerd <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:08:33 -0700
> > > > "Bob W. Anderson" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > > > Very newbie here!   Haven't used Pan yet - "no connections" displays
> > > > > in box in lower left corner of the screen.   Kmail works fine, as 
> > > > > does
> > > > >
> > > > > Firefox.   Dialup connection.  Athlon 1.2g  SuSE 9.0  Suggestions?
> > > > >     
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At the risk of sounding stupid: Have you set up your news (NNTP) 
> > > > server
> > > > in Pan?
> > > >
> > > > Tools --> News Servers...
> > > >   
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the response, Tim.   I'm sure it's something like that that
> > > I've failed to do - but lacking (or not being able to find) any
> > > helpful instructions, I'm floundering.
> > >
> > > What do I do if I go Tools -> News Servers   ?    I think I was there
> > > once, but didn't know what to do.   Sorry for being so dense.   Maybe
> > > it's related to my being left-handed?
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >  
> >
> > Mmkay Bob, first you have to promise to read 
> > http://www.google.com/googlegroups/basics.html at least.  Then you 
> > will probably want to spend some time reading about usenet etiquette 
> > and the like.  You can get a few of these guides at 
> > http://kb.indiana.edu/data/abcy.html or 
> > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/  But maybe you would 
> > benefit most from http://www.newbie.net/tgos/newbie/
> >
> > Since you're on dialup you probably aren't going to be going for the 
> > music and movie downloads and, given the way you orchestrated your 
> > posting, you seem to be nice ... too nice.  Watch out for the 
> > newsgroup sharks.
> >
> > The gist of it is newsgroups are a separate service you often receive 
> > via your internet service provider.  Like you already have email 
> > through your ISP (pipeline which is part of earthlink) that allows 
> > you to send messages *over the internet* and that is a service just 
> > like www is a service that allows you to browse websites *on the 
> > internet*.  Your ISP gives you the internet and the internet is made 
> > up by a whole assortium of things.  (If you want to get technical, 
> > you have 65,356 ports which are kind of like channels on the 
> > television.  Warning, large list 
>
>
> 65,536 sorry
>
>
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You are assuming he's a newby to the usenet my freind. He may of had 
experience with google groups without knowing how to set up a nntp 
client. Just a thought.

Alan