Randy Hoff posted on Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:07:11 -0400 as excerpted: > <div dir="ltr"><div><div>Started up Pan, selected my news server after > setting an acct. But nothing happened. Probably because I have no groups > to subscribe to but now to do that when the news server you are now > subscribing to does not even recognized your connection? I looked at > some your documentation and I so far cannot find the answer. Can you > please?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>R<br></div>
Keep reading. Your question is answered below, but there's a little matter to get out of the way first... I've no idea if the raw HTML you posted, as quoted above, will come out as raw and ugly as it does on pan (because I and others participate on this mailing list as a newsgroup, in pan, via gmane.org's list2news service), but please quit posting in HTML! HTML is for web pages, not mail and news messages, where it doesn't add a whole lot of value except to spammers and malware purveyors who can exploit it if your mail client parses HTML. So preferably, don't use a client that parses HTML in ordered to avoid being exploited yourself, and even more preferably, don't post it to others, encouraging them to use a mail client that parses HTML and can thus very likely be exploited in various ways. But, if you INSIST on posting in HTML to others, at /least/ have the respect to only post in plain text to the pan list. There's a reason pan's one of the few news clients that gets a 100% score on GNKSA, and by posting HTML, you're dissing pan and all of its users and developers over the years who have placed such high values on that. Just. Don't. Do. It. At least on the pan lists, but probably elsewhere to some extent as well, you'll irritate the folks who are likely to have your answers FAR less by choosing plain text instead of HTML. Because what you're doing with such posts is forcing security aware people who don't like the HTML abuse to choose between killfiling you outright as a security risk and netiquette abuser, in which case you'll simply never see their replies to that or any other posts of yours, or posting the reply, with or without the actual answer to whatever question was asked, and asking people to discontinue the abuse, hoping they'll do so for future posts. FWIW, my personal policy is normally to ignore it if I can't help with an answer to the question, but if I answer the question, I make sure I make clear that I'd like the netiquette and security abuse to stop, as part of that message. Then if people continue their abuse, I can killfile them in good conscience, knowing it can hardly be an accident any longer, and I asked. But others may killfile HTML posters on sight, or simply skip replying to people who abuse the lists/groups/ like that, choosing instead to spend their time replying to posters who are obviously rather more netiquette aware and considerate of their readers. (Similarly but preemptively in this case, don't top-post your replies as it makes further replies in context difficult and as a result is another GNKSA violation. But while bothersome, at least that's not a potential security issue like HTML mail is.) Umm... now that I've got /that/ out of my system (and you should have seen it before I toned it down, deciding flame-broiling you wasn't a particularly good way to win friends and hopefully positively influence your future choices in this area! =:^)... to your question... The step you probably missed is downloading the list of newsgroups, so you have something to subscribe to. =:^) See under Groups menu, Refresh group list. That should download the lists of newsgroups if your server information is configured correctly (and assuming you're connected to the net and the connection to the server isn't blocked by a firewall rule or the like). You can then subscribe to lists and commence downloading, etc. If refreshing the group list doesn't work, chances are something's configured wrong somewhere. We can work thru that step by step, if necessary. Of course if it comes to posting your server info, mask out your specific login info (username and password), if any, using xxx/yyy or the generic username and password, literal words. (And it shouldn't need said, but unfortunately it's far more common than it should be so we'll cover the base, if your password really is password, or even PassworD or p455w0rD, do yourself a favor and change it to be at least /somewhat/ secure! I doubt either you or your provider will appreciate it if a spammer or malware publisher gets ahold of your account, and that sort of password is begging for just that! =:^) -- 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
