Re: tlug: pine newsreader question

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Scott Stone wrote:

> OK, I'm using pine to try to read news.  My news server requires a
> username/password combo to access it.  pine insists on using 'sstone' as
> the username, and *will not let me change this value* -- only enter a
> password.  Problem is, my earthlink account is 'ss8913', not 'sstone'.  Is
> there any way to make it let me change the news username?  I went through
> the configuration settings but didn't see anything relevant.. I'm using
> pine 4.10.


I never found an answer to that, so I make my localhost userid at home
the same as my dial-up account  :-p

Jonathan
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