At 07:22 AM 1/17/2018, I wrote:
For the past two days, every time I try to post a message to a
newsgroup, Pan responds with this error message:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it
in an unusual way. Please contact the application's
support team for more information.
When I click OK in that window to clear it, Pan crashes entirely.
Am using 0.140, Chocolate Salty Balls for several years now without
problems, but suddenly this. Anybody have any idea what could be going on?
Aha! My primary news service, GigaNews, wrongfully terminated my
upload rights claiming I posted copyright material. I presumed that
would be for posting binaries only, but it turned out that GigaNews
even blocked simple text posts. When I fired up my old newsreader,
Xnews, for testing, I figured out that GigaNews was sending a clear
error message, but Pan doesn't understand that and just blows up.
So I reset Pan to make my other news service, Astraweb, my primary,
but the same posting problem was there too, making me think that Pan
was broken.
BUT I just poked around some more in Pan settings and realized that I
must not only switch news servers in Edit News Servers for
downloading files, but must also edit my Posting profile separately
to tell it to post via Astraweb. Until then, I was receiving news
feeds from Astraweb but still trying to post via GigaNews. Resetting
the posting profile target cured the problem.
But one still might ask why an error message from a news server
causes Pan to blow up with an error message pointing in a different
direction entirely.
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