On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:24:22 -0600, Charles Kerr wrote: > How do other multiserver Usenet clients handle this?
The only one I have is Agent 3.1 (which I never use except for occasions like this :o) When you set up Agent for the first time you fill out a 'Default News Access Plan' dialog box, which presents you with three tabs: one for Downloading Headers, one for Downloading Bodies, and one for Posting Articles. Each tab presents you with an ordered list of all of your news servers. Each server can be (de)selected, and moved up or down in priority. (Each of the three tabs is completely independent.) In addition, you select between several options like 'use only the first server' or 'use all servers' or 'use servers known to carry the newsgroup'. This is extremely flexible because it is complex -- and for a newbie it would be mildly overwhelming, IMO. At the time you subscribe to a newsgroup (Agent calls this step 'creating a folder' which is already very confusing) you are presented with a similar dialog box, allowing you to override the Defaults I described above if you wish. Again, very flexible, but not very newbie-friendly. After all this, you still have only one 'identity' for posting, although you can edit the 'From' line each time you post -- if you can remember to do it :o( All in all, I much prefer the way pan2 does it. I think that having a selectable, ordered list of news servers for each newsgroup is a nice touch, but not super important. I think making pan's error message more informative is far easier and way more important. Thanks, Charles! _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
