[Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

[Duncan]

Beartooth <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 17 Apr 2009
21:39:10 +0000:

> 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.

You don't need a posting profile for each group.  You do need at least 
one profile for each server you intend to post from.  Once you have one, 
if the other details are fine, you can select that profile for all the 
groups.  Once you setup a profile to post from giganews, all you should 
need to do is ensure it is selected for the first post from every group 
you intend to post to from giganews.

>       But, fwiw, the post I sent to a.a went from a Motzarella profile,
> precisely because the giganews on failed repeatedly.

Have you checked your giganews account, not to upgrade it, but to see if 
there's an option you need to set to post from it?

Back when I had newshosting, they had an option that controlled whether 
you could post from that account or not.  Many binary users don't want to 
post, only to download, and in fact would be embarrassed if they 
accidentally sent a post to whatever pr0n group they're downloading, thus 
the option.   This keeps such accidents from happening by default, but it 
was easy enough to turn the posting flag on when I actually wanted to 
post.  IDR whether it was a mail I had to send to a special address or an 
option I had to toggle on the site but once it's set to allow posting, 
the next time you login, it should allow it.

I'm not sure if giganews has a similar option or not but it would explain 
not being able to post to the group using a profile set to do so.

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