On Sunday 23 November 2008 12:32:33 George Czerw wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2008 12:00:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:22:20 +0000 (UTC) > > From: Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Posting problem > > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > "Travis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 22 > > > > Nov 2008 12:02:23 -0800: > > > From: "George Czerw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> > > > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:31 AM > > > > > >> I am using Pan 0.133 on Mandriva 2009.0 > > >> > > >> I recently had to change Usenet providers because Comcast stopped > > >> providing Giganews service in late October. So I established an > > >> account with motzarella. > > >> > > >> I did not delete the groups that I had been subscribed to, but merely > > >> refreshed them after initially logging onto motzarella. > > >> > > >> Now, when I attempt to post to a group, I most frequently get the > > >> following error: > > >> > > >> 441 No valid newsgroups in "alt.os.linux.mandriva" (or whatever other > > >> group I want to post to). > > >> > > >> I have to save my post as a draft, close Pan and then reopen it, after > > >> which I can open my saved draft and post it. I have to note that I > > >> never had this problem before switching Usenet services. > > >> > > >> Does anyone know why this is occurring and what I have to do to > > >> eliminate the problem? > > > > > > I don't know the answer but Duncan probably does, and he will ask you > > > to stop the HTML. > > > > You got it! =:^) There's a reason pan doesn't do HTML. Even if you > > can't respect it in ordinary mail, please respect it on the pan lists, > > which some of us participate on as groups, using pan. > > > > Walt's answer, refreshing the group list, might help, if the lists > > differ. I'd do it anyway, just to eliminate that possibility. However, > > since you can post to the same group later, that wouldn't appear to be > > the problem. It appears that the server is sometimes forgetting the > > groups which it carries, thus returning errors for them, but remembering > > them at other times. Unfortunately, this would be a server problem. If > > that's correct, you'd get the same error if you setup new servers. > > > > Another possibility is that it might be only on certain cross-posted > > messages, where the server carries one or more of the groups posted to > > but not all of them. In this case pan will warn you, but still allow you > > to post. However, it should warn you regardless of when you post (so > > after the save/load draft process), so that doesn't quite seem to fit the > > described behavior either. > > > > -- > > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > Neither refreshing nor unsubscribing/resubscribing seems to solve the > problem. Only closing and re-opening Pan seems to temporarily resolve it. > > If anyone has suggestions regarding any other free, reliable USENET servers > that don't delay posting of articles, email me directly and let me know > what they are. I really like the way that Comcast simply cut-off access to > Usenet because they no-longer wanted to pay for it, but did nothing about > reducing my internet access rates after they did so! Nice business > model...... > > Thanks > George
After banging my head against the wall for a few days, I remembered that I did not have the posting problem with the version 0.133 that I had manually compiled under Mandriva 2007. A check of the rpm database revealed that when I upgraded to Mandriva 2009.0, that the installation overrode Pan with a RPM version of 0.133 packaged for Mandriva 2009.0. Upon replacing the RPM provided PAN binary with the binary that I had compiled, all of the strange article posting and retrieval behavior disappeared! Thanks for everyone's input. George _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
