Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-16 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:18:12 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > > Whatever was wrong is fixed. Just for future reference, should you ever need to investigate problems like this: You can telnet to your news server on port 119 and issue some standard commands to see what the server is actually sending back.

Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 07:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: 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

Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/12/2011 09:40 AM, Jim Henderson wrote: One thing that could happen is that the posting profile might be pointing to a different server than the server you're reading from. No. I have one server set both for reading and posting. ___ Pan-users m

Re: [Pan-users] Odd error when posting

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Henderson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:42:53 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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

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