Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 07:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote: The 411 error code apparently means "no such newsgroup", per: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977 That's strange, as in all cases it was a reply to a group I'm subscribed to and there was no problem posting to it earlier. I'll try again, and take

Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Henderson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:30:21 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Every time I try to post this afternoon, Pan pops up an error message > that reads: 411 500 What? > > Does anybody know what this means? Checking the logs, there's nothing > in them to explain this. The 411 error code apparently means "no su

Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Joe Zeff wrote: Every time I try to post this afternoon, Pan pops up an error message that reads: 411 500 What? Does anybody know what this means? Checking the logs, there's nothing in them to explain this. My wild guess is that your provider's news server is broken and "411 500 What?" is

[Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
Every time I try to post this afternoon, Pan pops up an error message that reads: 411 500 What? Does anybody know what this means? Checking the logs, there's nothing in them to explain this. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://l

Re: [Pan-users] Astraweb Is Sending Bad Headers! -was: Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 02:15 PM, Duncan wrote: If you can quote RFCs to 'em, they should pay a bit more attention, tho it may be that you'll need to request "tier two" or whatever, as is sometimes the case with ISPs. Judging from the time I spent doing Tier Two support for an ISP, you'll be lucky if an

Re: [Pan-users] Astraweb Is Sending Bad Headers! -was: Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Duncan
Mark S Bilk posted on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:12:20 -0700 as excerpted: > I'll send another trouble-ticket to Astraweb, but after their previous > performance I don't know if they'll care. It shouldn't be hard to > insert code into Pan to interpret the incoming header stream defensively > and determi

[Pan-users] Astraweb Is Sending Bad Headers! -was: Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Mark S Bilk
When a newsreader requests article headers from a news server with an OVER (formerly XOVER) command, the server sends the headers of each article combined into a single line, with the contents of the various headers separated by tabs, in this order (quoting from Section 8.3.2 of RFC 3977 http://

Re: [Pan-users] Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Mark S Bilk
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:39:42AM +0200, Nicolas Richard wrote: >Le 10/08/2011 13:25, Mark S Bilk a écrit : >>... >... >btw, did you try running "pan --debug" ? Wow, thanks, this is extremely helpful! It really shows what Pan is doing! For example, If the body of one of the problem articles is

Re: [Pan-users] Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Duncan
Mark S Bilk posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:23:02 -0700 as excerpted: > Duncan, many thanks for this info! Just what I need for easing into > this debugging session. It's going to be a fun night -- only one, I > hope! ... As a pan user you should know better than to top post, and you /did/ edit

[Pan-users] [Gentoo] custom pan-9999 ebuild Was: Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Duncan
Nicolas Richard posted on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:39:42 +0200 as excerpted: > Le 10/08/2011 13:25, Mark S Bilk a écrit : >> Nico, thanks! Am I correct in thinking that you downloaded the 0.135 >> source files from git.gnome.org and built the executable on your >> machine? > > Almost. I 'git pull'ed

Re: [Pan-users] Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-11 Thread Nicolas Richard
Le 10/08/2011 13:25, Mark S Bilk a écrit : Nico, thanks! Am I correct in thinking that you downloaded the 0.135 source files from git.gnome.org and built the executable on your machine? Almost. I 'git pull'ed the repository and built the executable on my machine through the use of portage sys

Re: [Pan-users] Result of Astraweb Trouble-Ticket

2011-08-11 Thread Brian Morrison
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:04:48 -0700 Mark S Bilk wrote: > Before I attack this problem with a network packet analyzer, Maybe now is the point at which you should do this. -- Brian Morrison "I am not young enough to know everything"