Subject: changing "from" address

From: DONALD PEDDER <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:15:52 +1100

I am using Pine 3.91. I have posted to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet/email
and not gotten an answer. I want to know how to change my "from" address to
include "nospam" or similar (when posting publically. i.e. usenet). I looked
online, and could find many a reference TO it, but not how to DO it.
   I have a NEW ISP from tomorrow, and DON'T want my new address to be
attacked by spam like THIS address has been recently (following usenet
postings). 

  Thanks.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:55:05 GMT

On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Jim Love wrote:
> I'm sticking my neck out since I came here to visit and learn. I have
> access to Unix Pine from a web account and it is new to me. I cannot
> find a reference to 'user-domain' in my .pinerc and when I tried to
> define it, it wouldn't take. I thought I read a post in this group that
> stated the newest versions would not allow this. What's the straight
> scoop!

Try editing your .pinerc again adding a line like this:

 user-domain=bellsouth.net

And while you're at it, you probably want to set user-id, e.g.:

 user-id=jiminmem

Do a search through the file and make sure that each of these are
set only once.  Also make sure that this info is not being
overridden by a customized-hdrs setting, e.g.:

 customized-hdrs=From: Jim Love <[email-masked]>

Also, make sure that you do all your edits to your .pinerc while
pine is NOT running.

Good luck,
Nancy

PS re this part of your sig:

 > mailto:[email-masked]
 > mailto:[email-masked]
 > mailto:[email-masked]     

A lot of spammers grep through news postings for email addresses so
giving out all these addresses might mean that you will get spammed
at all of them...

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From: Jim Love <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 22:03:38 -0600

>Nancy McGough wrote:

 <most of message snipped>

> giving out all these addresses might mean that you will get spammed

Nancy,

Thank you for your prompt, courteous, informative reply. I appreciate
you taking the time to respond. As per your comments regarding spammers,
I am well aware of their tactics. At this point in time, I prefer to
treat them the same way I treat all of my U.S. mail. If someone wishes
to communicate with me to discuss something, I like to make it as easy
as possible for them to contact me and I will be glad to share
knowledge. If it's junk, I throw it in the garbage like I do the US mail
junk. No big deal. I don't want to sound like it's some kind of macho
thing, (all 130 lbs. of me!) but I refuse to run and hide. I want to
make it easy for my friends to communicate with me, I ignore small
infractions on my privacy, and I think we all are learning the proper
ways (and the not so proper ways) to shut down true spammers.

Thanks again,
Sincerely
-- 
Jim Love

mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]     
http://www.lspages.com/jimlove.html

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From: [email-masked] (*selah*)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 05:58:22 GMT

DONALD PEDDER ([email-masked]) wrote:
:    I am using Pine 3.91. I have posted to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet/email
: and not gotten an answer. I want to know how to change my "from" address to
: include "nospam" or similar (when posting publically. i.e. usenet). I looked
: online, and could find many a reference TO it, but not how to DO it.
:    I have a NEW ISP from tomorrow, and DON'T want my new address to be
: attacked by spam like THIS address has been recently (following usenet
: postings). 
: 
:   Thanks.
: 
: 

If you go to the config (go to "setup" from the main menu and then
config) you can reset the user-domain= to whatever you want.