Re: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

[Travis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beartooth" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 14:39 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble


> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:17 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> David Shochat <address@hidden> posted
>> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 16 Apr 2009
>> 23:13:29 +0000:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:06:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I signed up for an individual giganews account, and immediately went
>>>> to full activation, forgoing the "free trial"; but I get two error
>>>> messages from Pan when I try to post -- first one saying
>>>> 
>>>> Warning: The posting profile's server doesn't carry newsgroup
>>>> "alt.appalachian".
>>> It looks to me like giganews DOES carry that group. Are you sure that
>>> the posting profile you have associated with alt.appalachian names
>>> news.giganews.com for "post articles via"?
>> 
>> Hi David and Beartooth.  This was my first thought as well.  Check that
>> the posting profile used is set to post to giganews.
> 
> I seem to have misunderstood something. I know giganews carries 
> a.a, because I followed it for years with a Verizon account, when Verizon 
> subcontracted news to them.
> 
> What I failed to realize was that my profile chooses the 
> newsfeed. This is going to get tiresome: I follow far too many groups, 
> however cursorily, to have a profile for each. I had unthinkingly 
> supposed, as I should not have done, that Pan would not only read from, 
> but post to, each group using primary servers first; I may have to 
> upgrade my giganews account.
> 
> But, fwiw, the post I sent to a.a went from a Motzarella profile, 
> precisely because the giganews on failed repeatedly.
> 
> Funny how I can think a thing, and not think it, at the same time 
> -- presumably with different parts of what it amuses me to call my mind...

Verizon has been my ISP since 1999 and then and now has had their own news 
servers.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington