Subject: HELP: Cannot post to local newsgroup

From: "David S. Spillers" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 17:18:59 -0500 (CDT)

Problem:

We have the pine.conf* files set up with an NNTP-SERVER and then various 
news collections. One of those news collections is for a news host other 
than our NNTP-SERVER (our NNTP-SERVER happens to be a remote machine, 
while the aforementioned news collection is set to our local machine). 
Now, when we subscribe to one of the newsgroups in the "local" 
collection, everything is fine. It sees the proper list. However, once an 
attempt is made to POST to this "local" newsgroup, an error message 
that looks something like 'ERROR 441: Unable to post to newsgroup 
"(null)"' is sent to us and the post fails. We want to be able to read 
AND post from/to _both_ servers, and were wondering if anyone could 
explain what the problem is.

Possible Troubleshooting:

We have examined our local "inn" and "innd" programs to see if they are 
configured properly. As far as we know, they are, but they might not be.

We might have confliction between pine.conf and pine.conf.fixed, although 
we were very careful.

Does Pine allow you to post/read from more than one server? Please help 
us with this.

Thank you,

David S. Spillers				<[email-masked]>
Daniel Spillers					<[email-masked]>