OT Q for Noreen

Hi Noreen,

I've got an off-topic question about Pine, could you email me off-list
please, thanks - I couldn't find your valid email addy.

David

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David R. Sky
http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/

Thanks Noreen, for some reason I thought you knew about Pine from a very old
message which I don't have any more.

David

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, YarnWright wrote:

David R. Sky spun a FINE 'yarn' :

Hi Noreen,

I've got an off-topic question about Pine, could you email me off-list
please, thanks - I couldn't find your valid email addy.

David

David....
I don't HAVE pine, so can't answer your query anyway!
I only saw this as I was exit-ing, and thought you deserved at least an
acknowledgement that I had seen it.
Noreen
gone to deal with pressing issues





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David R. Sky
http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/

YarnWright wrote:

I had attempted using Pine, but found it to be too NON-user-'friendly" for me,
David....

Wow, really? That was my first news reader, and I loved it. It was
really fast and I could read TONS of newsgroups and sift things out
nicely in a short period of time.

Those were the days before the WWW, though, and I don't know how I would
handle surfing to web links on PINE, though.

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
work with excellence.

"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" wrote
....
YarnWright wrote:

I had attempted using Pine, but found it to be too NON-user-'friendly"
for me,
David....

Wow, really? That was my first news reader, and I loved it. It was
really fast and I could read TONS of newsgroups and sift things out nicely
in a short period of time.

Those were the days before the WWW, though, and I don't know how I would
handle surfing to web links on PINE, though.


Melinda, since you've used it, you might be able to answer David's question.

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Jan in MN

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

That was my first news reader, and I loved it. It was really
fast and I could read TONS of newsgroups and sift things out nicely in a
short period of time.

Hi melinda,

I originally asked for Noreen to email me about this since it's off-topic
for this group. I want to know how do I change my email address when posting
to a ng so I don't get spam

Those were the days before the WWW, though, and I don't know how I would
handle surfing to web links on PINE, though.

I'm using Pine 4.61 on a unix shell to read ng's and also email on this
account - I've set up Pine so I can click on and visit a link using Lynx, a
text-only browser which has been on all Unix accounts I've used. There are
two or three settings in the configuration section of pine to set this up.

As I understand it, there is also a Windows version of pine.

Thanks

David




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http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/

David R. Sky wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

That was my first news reader, and I loved it. It was really fast and
I could read TONS of newsgroups and sift things out nicely in a short
period of time.

Hi melinda,

I originally asked for Noreen to email me about this since it's
off-topic for this group. I want to know how do I change my email
address when posting to a ng so I don't get spam

I am so sorry. I have no idea how to do it. Back when I was using it,
that wasn't so necessary. Have you tried Googling for a manual?

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
work with excellence.

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

I am so sorry. I have no idea how to do it. Back when I was using it, that
wasn't so necessary. Have you tried Googling for a manual?

Thanks melinda - I didn't find a simple "how to", although hopefully I've
got it working properly now.

David




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http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/

"David R. Sky" wrote in message
. bc.ca...

I originally asked for Noreen to email me about this since it's off-topic
for this group. I want to know how do I change my email address when
posting
to a ng so I don't get spam

Here's what I do. Where you have the at sign, just write "at", and where
there is a period or dot, just write "dot", with spaces between the words.
I'm guessing (but could be wrong) that the "wapvi" doesn't belong in your
addy shown here, so you could also tell people to leave out whatever doesn't
belong.

If my e-mail address were , I would write it as shelagh at
cat dot howl.

I hope this helps.
Shelagh

Thanks Shillelagh,

I'd tried that several times over the years without success. After someone
else here suggested googling, that's what I did *chuckle* and found the
cumbersome solution.

David

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Shillelagh wrote:


"David R. Sky" wrote in message
. bc.ca...

I originally asked for Noreen to email me about this since it's off-topic
for this group. I want to know how do I change my email address when
posting
to a ng so I don't get spam

Here's what I do. Where you have the at sign, just write "at", and where
there is a period or dot, just write "dot", with spaces between the words.
I'm guessing (but could be wrong) that the "wapvi" doesn't belong in your
addy shown here, so you could also tell people to leave out whatever doesn't
belong.

If my e-mail address were , I would write it as shelagh at
cat dot howl.

I hope this helps.
Shelagh




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David R. Sky
http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/

In article . ca,
David R. Sky wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

I am so sorry. I have no idea how to do it. Back when I was using it, that
wasn't so necessary. Have you tried Googling for a manual?

Thanks melinda - I didn't find a simple "how to", although hopefully I've
got it working properly now.

I have PINE also, though I use trn for newsgroups. I didn't know it
was possible to change the email address. Could you drop me an email
and tell me how?

=Tamar