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In article <73493819_000003_OASIS_NEWS@the-gap.demon.co.uk>, gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) wrote:
>
>The problem is that newsie decides that the 'user' is 'gary' instead of
>'the-gap' (in my case). Of course, this is totally wrong in Demon's case.
>
>I reported this to John Rojewski ages ago, but no fix has been produced yet
>:(

In point of fact, according to the RFCs and so forth, your hostname is 
'the-gap' - anything to the right of the '@' is part of the domain name, not a 
username.  Demon (and a very few other systems using antiquated/obsolete 
conventions) doesn't follow the RFC in that regard, although if the system 
(the ISP's mail system, that is) were properly set up, 'gary@the-gap...' 
should be able to pick up his email because Demon would alias the POP3 server 
as 'the-gap' for that purpose.  In accordance with the RFC, your username IS 
'gary' - so John is correct in his configuration.  It's probably easier to get 
him to kludge Newsie than it is to get Demon to do anything other than provide 
a port for spam to enter the 'net, however.


The Reverend Rich Tietjens aka Captain Blade
atari@teleport.com
Spam is sinful - shoot spam on sight!