Subject: Re: Anonymous/Name changes

From: [email-masked] (Shane DeRidder)
Date: 1 Jul 1995 22:21:55 -0500

On 28 Jun 1995, movable articles wrote:

# John Marken ([email-masked]) wrote:
# : How would you change your name that is shown in the newsgroups. Do you do 
# : it through Pine? 
# 
# I asked the same question of my server, InterAccess in Illinois, and was 
# told that they had to do it.  It took them less than ten minutes and I 
# was up and running with a new name.  Some Windows based programs have 
# their own profile files so you still have to make changes in them, if you 
# use any.

You can do it in your .pinerc by changing the personal-name= field to 
whatever name you wish to use.

Shane-

btw, i'm a former Interaccess user, and have used it there as 
well...they don't have to do a thing.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Jul 1995 04:05:45 GMT

>whatever name you wish to use.

On many systems, you can change it by using the `chfn' command.  
This will change your full name in /etc/passwd, in your finger
info, and in lots of apps, including Pine.

  -nancy