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Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:50:04 PST8
From:	Benedict G. Archer <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: News Client

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In <104507437201@host2a.generalbroadband.com>, on 02/12/2003
at 10:25 AM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>In <3E4A8AA4.E01168A1@pacbell.net>, on 02/12/03
> at 09:55 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>>but I well recall that NS 4.61 would not allow you to munge the sender's
>>address. Therefore, you could not even do the old "Nospam" type of
>>alteration / addition to your address, if you wanted to reply to
>>something. That was unacceptable, in my view.

>I do it all the time.

>Then again, I don't use it for a mailer, just for Usenet.
>>It is still my longer-range intention to switch to a "real" email
>>program -- most likely either MR2 or Polarbar

>I use MR/2.

>>but I wanted to have the News access via the same program.

>I don't use MR/2 for news, though I could (and I used to, but MR/2 always
>seemed to have database stability probs in news - it's been improved
>since then.). I prefer Netscape/Mozilla.

What I meant, when I think I started this, was that I wanted my browser to
be anonymous. I didn't care, maybe I should, if my identity and address
were revealed in an email or a newslist postting. I my have
misconceptions about this, but I thought that setting up NS or Mozilla for
mail would reveal my identity when I was just browsing. Would setting up
different profiles avoid that? The shortcoming of MR/2 as a news client
is that you have to have separate accounts for separate news servers (I
think), and that seems awkward. I agree that NS/Mozilla handle news a bit
easier than PMINews.

Ben A.

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