Re: Problems posting with Pan.
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:57:15 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> 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.
My Pan has a list of all available newsgroups, mostly as a collapsed tree.
On startup, it uncollapses the subscribed newsgroups, and has the
unsubscriped ones collapsed.
By removing a group, do you mean unsubsribing? Or do you mean removing its
newsserver?
-- hendrik
>
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