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Re: Changing user name

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From: Giolla Decair
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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From: giolla@ogham.org (Giolla Decair)
Subject: Re: Changing user name
Date: 1996/10/02
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