Beartooth posted
pan.2009.05.25.19.41...@comcast.net, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009
19:41:45 +:
> I have accounts at motzarella (free) and at giganews (charges money).
> When I post to a group that both carry, isn't it precisely my choice of
> server that determines whether i get char
Matej Cepl posted
gvedfo$47...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009 15:28:56
+:
> Duncan, Mon, 25 May 2009 10:32:59 +:
>> Special purpose or private servers such as gmane and grc just happen to
>> be using the same NNTP protocol as normal USENET[.] Being the only
> server
Beartooth posted
pan.2009.05.25.15.41...@comcast.net, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009
15:41:25 +:
> I'm glad this came up; I've been getting lots of irritating cautions
> saying the server didn't carry the group, and having to deal with them
> piecemeal. It turned out almost all were se
On Mon, 25 May 2009 15:28:56 +, Matej Cepl wrote:
> b) servers for posting ... you actually don't care about servers
> (meaning, like real piece of hardware with separate IP address), but
> something which my IRC client (xchat-gnome) would call "network".
I'm not at all sure I unders
On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:31:12 +, David Shochat wrote:
> I also have found this very non-obvious, but what you have to do is to
> designate a "posting profile" to each group you want to post to. Right
> mouse on news.grc.com in the group list and select "Edit Selected
> Group's Preferences". Tha
Duncan, Mon, 25 May 2009 10:32:59 +:
> Special purpose or private servers such as gmane and grc just happen to
> be using the same NNTP protocol as normal USENET even if they aren't a
> part of it, and as such, it should be expected that they don't fit the
> general mold perfectly. Being the o
David Shochat posted
gvdogv$5h...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 May 2009 09:31:12
+:
> On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:37:40 +, Matej Cepl wrote:
>
>> This feels very very weird ... I have just tried to make a followup to
>> message from news.grc.com and pan complained that it doesn
On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:37:40 +, Matej Cepl wrote:
> This feels very very weird ... I have just tried to make a followup to
> message from news.grc.com and pan complained that it doesn't want to
> post to that newsgroup via news.gmane.org. WTF?
>
> Doesn't pan know where it get the newsgroup f
This feels very very weird ... I have just tried to make a followup to
message from news.grc.com and pan complained that it doesn't want to post
to that newsgroup via news.gmane.org. WTF?
Doesn't pan know where it get the newsgroup from? What's so complicated
to expect that the followup would g
