OT Q for Noreen

David R. Sky spun a FINE 'yarn' :

David.... I don't HAVE pine, so can't answer your query anyway! I only saw this as I was exit-ing, and thought you deserved at least an acknowledgement that I had seen it. Noreen gone to deal with pressing issues :(

Thanks Noreen, for some reason I thought you knew about Pine from a very old message which I don't have any more.

David

David R. Sky spun a FINE 'yarn':

I had attempted using Pine, but found it to be too NON-user-'friendly" for me, David.... Sorry! Noreen

Wow, really? That was my first news reader, and I loved it. It was really fast and I could read TONS of newsgroups and sift things out nicely in a short period of time.

Those were the days before the WWW, though, and I don't know how I would handle surfing to web links on PINE, though.

Melinda, since you've used it, you might be able to answer David's question.

Hi melinda,

I originally asked for Noreen to email me about this since it's off-topic for this group. I want to know how do I change my email address when posting to a ng so I don't get spam

I'm using Pine 4.61 on a unix shell to read ng's and also email on this account - I've set up Pine so I can click on and visit a link using Lynx, a text-only browser which has been on all Unix accounts I've used. There are two or three settings in the configuration section of pine to set this up.

As I understand it, there is also a Windows version of pine.

Thanks

David

I am so sorry. I have no idea how to do it. Back when I was using it, that wasn't so necessary. Have you tried Googling for a manual?

Thanks melinda - I didn't find a simple "how to", although hopefully I've got it working properly now.

David

Here's what I do. Where you have the at sign, just write "at", and where there is a period or dot, just write "dot", with spaces between the words. I'm guessing (but could be wrong) that the "wapvi" doesn't belong in your addy shown here, so you could also tell people to leave out whatever doesn't belong.

If my e-mail address were snipped-for-privacy@cat.howl, I would write it as shelagh at cat dot howl.

I hope this helps. Shelagh

Thanks Shillelagh,

I'd tried that several times over the years without success. After someone else here suggested googling, that's what I did *chuckle* and found the cumbersome solution.

David

I have PINE also, though I use trn for newsgroups. I didn't know it was possible to change the email address. Could you drop me an email and tell me how?

=Tamar

Hi Tamar,

After a few false starts I got it properly working - I've sent you full instructions on how to do this -- after a few wonky emails *grin*

One thing I forgot to add to it - if you do not use the # command to start a role, your regular email address will be used.

David