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

[Mark S Bilk]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:23:37PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>Mark S Bilk wrote:
>>I posted several articles to alt.test, which KNode can read but Pan
>>can't.  I'm using Pan 0.135 from the OpenSuse Linux 11.4 32-bit
>>software repository.  My Usenet source is Astraweb.
>
>Hahah! I reported this same thing a few weeks back... search the
>archives for a post "Empty posts in Pan?" on 21/6/11.

I remember seeing your name in a related thread when I did a 
search before posting!

>I then reported it to my ISP, who was unable to replicate the fault
>(or if they could, they wouldn't admit it -- eventually they closed

Unless the ISP was purposely blocking Usenet packets, they 
wouldn't have any connection with the problem, I'm pretty sure.

>the ticket and told me to report it to Astraweb.
>
>http://helpdesk.astraweb.com/

I just did that!  I hope they can give me some answers and 
save me from long sessions with the NNTP protocol manual
and the network packet analyzer Ethereal (now unfortunately 
renamed "Wireshark").  Actually Ethereal is pretty good at 
rendering various protocol packets into human-readable form,
so maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

>Here is a report by somebody else experiencing a similar, if not the
>same, problem:
>
>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/926636#926636
>
>I believe his symptoms are different from mine because we are using
>different news clients. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe he too
>is using Astraweb.

Yes, I think you're right.

>Here are some more examples:
>...
>More information:

Steven, many thanks for all this info!  You've focussed the search 
even more closely on Astraweb!  And the articles you've listed will 
be very handy for further investigation and verifying the solution 
once we have one.