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Article #60Re: Changing user name
From: Giolla Decair
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00
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Previously cppnews@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke - Cppnews newsreader support) said: >In article <32506880.16925966@news.demon.co.uk> > giolla@ogham.org (Giolla Decair) writes: >> As you're thinking of a new release, >> here's a small thing for the wish list, is it >> possible or could it be possible to be able to >> change between users without exiting >> changing the environment variable and restarting? >> I may have overlooked how to do it, but as I admin >> a few lists and use different contact names for >> the lists it can be quite annoying. >It is rarely necessary to change user names unless you are in a truly >multi-user situation (i.e. more than one person is using the newsbase). That is the situation I'm in, at the moment we close down cppnews run a batch file to change the environment variable and restart cppnews, a bit of an annoyance and has made me give up on the DIS front end. >Look in the documentation under "Automatic Reply-To, From and Full name >headers, and signature file selection" to see how to set different >"identities" for different groups/folders. Then, assuming you log on as >the super user, so you can see all the mail folders, you can have your >contact names filled in automatically, depending what group or folder you >are reading. Thanks for the pointer.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f925e,a0d5a9570312f534 X-Google-Attributes: gidf925e,public From: giolla@ogham.org (Giolla Decair) Subject: Re: Changing user name Date: 1996/10/02 Message-ID: <3252f259.2255114@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 186795669 x-nntp-posting-host: bob1.support.demon.net references: <32506880.16925966@news.demon.co.uk> <844231866snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> organization: Giolla Decair Designs reply-to: giolla@ogham.org newsgroups: demon.ip.cppnews