----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of Beartooth Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 09:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Pan-users] Access provider, email provider, and Pan
> In connection with a grand reworking of my whole email > operation, I'm being urged on comp.mail.pine to give up the > use of adelphia.net (which I only wish I could replace in > toto!) for email. (I already do the vast majority of my email > on a remote IMAP machine, which I access from my adelphia > account; the project is to revise things so that, among other > benefits, I can handle that from within the remote account.) > > I've been using adelphia for two purposes. Mostly, it's just > a spamtrap -- though my usenet posts produce a fair number of > direct replies which I'd hate to be without. A minor point is > that an address like <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is a lot easier > for people whom I first encounter in the flesh to hear, > spell, and remember than my main one. > > But the main reason I'm using it at all is that, in order to > access adelphia's newsfeed (subcontracted to giganews), afaik > I have to give my adelphia address and password -- and Pan > then also uses that as my posting address -- which is of > course what makes it primarily a spamtrap. > > So if I were to abandon that address, would Pan be able to > use some other in some way?? Or would I have to find another > newsfeed provider?? I have to use my userId and password to access my news server and I put that info in the "News Servers" and I put an invalid address in "Posting Profiles" and it works and I don't get any spam from my newsgroup posts. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
