Re: Problems posting with Pan.

["Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@anzavalley.net>]

On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
>
> > On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > > Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me
> > >
> > > There were problems with this post.
> > > Warning: Unknown  group "sci.physics.research"
> > >
> > > It seems to be group-specific.  Some groups I read are unknown,  
> > > others
> > > exist. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that
> > > usenet
> > > group.
> >
> > Which news server are you using? have you checked to make sure it is
> > still valid?
>
> My ISP, magma.com, uses giganews.com to provide the usenet feed.
>
> What does it mean, whether the server is still valid?  I see recent  
> news
> appearing on it, day by day.
>
> There does seem to be a server connection, though -- newgroups it  
> provided
> have this problem, whereas the newsgroups provided by gmane do not.
>
> -- hendrik

Sorry, that's what I meant. Sometimes, the newserver(s) seem to lose  
one or two newsgroups for a period of time.

I do recall, on occasion pan would complain. I would remove the  
newsgroup, then add it back.

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