Subject: I requre assistance.

From: Stephen Bailey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:52:19 -0400 (EDT)

Hello
I would like to know how I Change my password>  Everytime i select setup
and then hit (N) for newpassword it goes blank and acts as though I never
selected the setup command.  It acts like im on the main menue.  Thank you
for your time.

		love stephen Bailey

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Oct 1996 05:23:39 -0400

> selected the setup command.  It acts like im on the main menue.  Thank you

In the tradition of Usenet, where newcomers should receive the benefit
of some personal training as they enter, I'll hand out a couple of
gratuitous suggestions before addressing your question.

Your subject is... a bit harsh, and a bit uninformative.  I'm scanning
over hundreds of subjects as I read through Usenet news.  You
"require" assistance from me?  I don't think so.  Feel free to request
it, but don't require it.  More importantly, it is crucial to put
the... uh... subject of your request into the "Subject:" line.  99% of
the time I won't even read a posting whose Subject line doesn't give
me a lead on what it contains.  A far more useful subject line could
have been: Subject: Help with failure to reset password

Next (and this is why I won't be able to answer your question): we
need to know the details of the platform you're using.  Pine is
available for a bewildering array of machines and operating systems,
each of which is likely to have a different password-setting
mechanism.  Are you running on a Unix host?  Are you running PC Pine?
Are you running on a VAX?  Also important, what version of Pine are
you using?  It's entirely possible that you've stumbled across a known
bug - we'll never know if we can't tell what you're using.  There is
simply no way that we could address your question without knowing
that.

OK, sorry if that all seemed a bit pointed, but a bit of community
ettiquette training should happen to all newcomers at some point.  The
main things to keep in mind when posting a question on Usenet are that
you are _requesting_ help from a community where politeness is valued,
and that community inhabits every sort of computing system in the
world.  You must provide enough information about your own system and
your own problem to let the appropriate people know how to help you.

Best of luck, and welcome to Usenet.

-Dean
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