[Pan-users] Re: posting problem

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:45:53 +0000 as excerpted:

[ Discussion from the archives... On the question of where the posting 
server config is, and whether it is obvious... ]

> To be sure, the way it really works is obvious *after* you've once seen
> it (or had it explained to you). I submit, however, that it is neither
> obvious nor intuitive to those of us devoid of aspirations to
> technoidicity, who just need to *use* Pan.

That would seem to be the case...

> You may be interested in a little anecdote -- with an implied definition
> of "obvious."

> One day [a physics professor] was giving a post-doctoral class,
> scribbling onto the blackboard the whole time, and said at a certain
> point, "Now, obviously, ..."
> 
> Writing down the next equation, he kept going -- unaware of a hand that
> immediately began waving frantically at the back of the room.
> 
> When he eventually glanced around, the poor guy with the hand asked,
> "Professor X, back where you said "obviously" ... about the top of the
> second board -- is that *really* obvious?"
> 
> The prof looked at it a minute; grabbed a pad and pencil; and
> disappeared into his adjoining office.
> 
> Fifteen minutes later, he came back; said, "Yes, it is obvious" -- and
> went on where he had left off.

I'd had this saved for further though... but it does seem to apply to 
pan's current posting server selection being in the posting profile, 
doesn't it.  Obvious... in hindsight (read as: to those who know about 
it), and /especially/ to the guy (me) who came up with the idea in the 
first place!

I have a whole subthread here, about eight posts, that I saved on the 
topic.  I'm examining them once again but this is near the top of the 
subthread.  Maybe something better will come up further into it.  I've 
always said there may be a better way, but lacking the insight into it, 
unsurprisingly in a one candidate race, Charles chose my solution.

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