Re: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble

[Travis]

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From: "Duncan" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 16:41 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble


> 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.

I use Giganews and never had to do anything special to post to the groups I 
read.
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Travis in Shoreline Washington