I've been using the new Pan for the last month or so and am impressed with the new design and performance. Great work, developers!
My only complaint so far, however, is that the server to post articles to is tied to the posting profile, rather than the server from which the posted-to group originates. What is the use-case for that? I cannot image that is a common case; a far more common case, I suspect, is reading different newsgroups through different servers and needing to post through the originating server. For example, I'm reading this through GMane as gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user and to post to it, I have to be sure I've selected my GMane posting profile so the post goes to news.gmane.org. For USENET groups, comp.lang.c for example, I need to post to my ISP's news server. There will never be a case, AFAICT, where I would post to GMane groups through my ISP's server or vice versa. Yes, I know I can manually edit preferences for each group to select the posting profile for each group, but that seems backwards--NOT posting through the originating server should be a special case. I have a few ideas of how this could be resolved: o Have a special selection in the posting profile under "Post Articles via" for "Default for Group" and make that the default. 99% of people will not need to change it and one posting profile would be all that is necessary, even for multiple groups. o Do away with the "Post Articles via" entirely and only post through the server that carries the posted-to group. o Associate each group only with posting profiles where the server is listed as the "Post Articles via". Wil _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
