----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 16:41 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: giganews trouble
> Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> posted > pan.2009.04.17.21.39...@comcast.net, 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. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
