GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 397347
posting error message could be more helpful.
Last modified: 2007-01-22 15:19:42 UTC
While I recognize the benefit of the current system for power users, the current system is neither intuituve nor obvious to the "casual observer". Pan should, unless directed otherwise, attempt to post to the server(s) from which the article was fetched, falling back to other available servers, until there are no servers left or the post succeeds. For further discussion, see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user/8160.
This refers to the changes made back in 0.105 for bug #348667. I agree that the way things are done right now can be confusing. In the case of follow-ups, Pan doesn't know what server the original article came from. Even if that were added, Pan wouldn't have that point of reference for new posts.
As per the pan-users thread, I'm going to replace Warning: Unknown group "gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user". with a more helpful message: Warning: The posting profile's server doesn't carry newsgroup "gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user". If the group name is correct, switch profiles in the "From:" line or edit the profile with "Edit|Manage Posting Profiles".
Created attachment 80511 [details] [review] make the "unknown group" warning message more helpful. I'm not 100% happy with this message because it ties the backend to a particular user interface -- the instructions for how to solve the problem only make sense in Pan's posting dialog, but the backend is intentonally more abstract (for some future or Qt interface). Still, the path to fix this is pretty easy so if/when Pan goes bilingual, message-check can return a set of error codes rather than error messages, and the caller can use the codes to create caller-centric error messages.