Membership alternatives to e-mail (OT)...

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All:

My employer’s parent company recently decided to punish us by merging our IT system with theirs. One of the upshots of this is that my e-mail has changed. At the moment, I can still log in to our old server in order to post to ntdev et. c.; however this is going away shortly, I’m told, except for forwarding, which will last for at least a year. While creating a new account (and deleting the old one) on ntdev et. c. is not the end of the world, I know that I at least have gotten used to certain seeing certain addresses, and I really don’t want to create new one here. So, I guess I wondering if anyone out there has used one of the alternative posting methods that he or she would recommend. Using one of them would allow me to keep my existing e-mail address from OSRONLINE’s point of view as long my employer continues to forward, and hopefully I can convince someone here to at least keep the server indefinitely, which is fairly likely, and ideally to change some policy for this specific case, which is unlikely. Presently, in order to keep up this facade, I have to read in the new account, and post in the old account, which is only accessible through a web client that times out every two minutes for security purposes. If the best answer is to create a new account, hotmail it is this time, because I definitely don’t want to do this again, and I regret not doing it last time, which I considered.

Thanks,

mm

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If everything you want is your posts to the list look like sent from your original address, it shouldn’t be so hard. Every spammer and trojan knows how to do forge sender’s address :slight_smile: Everything necessary is to set From: field in the mail headers as you need.

It seems as your company uses Exchange mailserver. In this case you have to ask your admin to create your account alias with your old e-mail address. Then you need to enable From field in your e-mail client and for every post to OSR list put this alias there. When left blank, default address should be used.

I used this way for some time to avoid silly OOF messages received everytime I post to the lists and to avoid spam. I used non-existent address (with .nospam suffix). However, I forgot to change From field more and more often and when I changed my mail next time, I decided to stop using it. Now I can forward all these OOF message to Thieves Inc. who will know what to do with them :wink:

Anyway, changing e-mail isn’t so big deal. I have at least 4th one since I joined NTDEV.

I guess you can also use newsreader for the same purposes. I don’t use it because don’t like news for semi-irrational reasons. I’m too lazy to install Thunderbird and I hate stupid OE which enables annoying Messenger everytime accidentally I run it.

Best regards,

Michal Vodicka
UPEK, Inc.
[xxxxx@upek.com, http://www.upek.com]

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All:

My employer’s parent company recently decided to punish us by merging our IT system with theirs. One of the upshots of this is that my e-mail has changed. At the moment, I can still log in to our old server in order to post to ntdev et. c.; however this is going away shortly, I’m told, except for forwarding, which will last for at least a year. While creating a new account (and deleting the old one) on ntdev et. c. is not the end of the world, I know that I at least have gotten used to certain seeing certain addresses, and I really don’t want to create new one here. So, I guess I wondering if anyone out there has used one of the alternative posting methods that he or she would recommend. Using one of them would allow me to keep my existing e-mail address from OSRONLINE’s point of view as long my employer continues to forward, and hopefully I can convince someone here to at least keep the server indefinitely, which is fairly likely, and ideally to change some policy for this specific case, which is unlikely. Presently, in order to keep up this facade, I have to read in the new account, and post in the old account, which is only accessible through a web client that times out every two minutes for security purposes. If the best answer is to create a new account, hotmail it is this time, because I definitely don’t want to do this again, and I regret not doing it last time, which I considered.

Thanks,

mm

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Personally, I’ve never read the list or posted via email.

I’ve used the newsreader interface, and it’s fine if you like to use ancient technology.

Since its inception, I’ve almost exclusively used the web forum interface. I like it… though there are a couple of minor downsides: It’s harder to quote previous emails (that’s a hidden benefit, though… cuz posts get trimmed mercilessly) and it’s sometimes annoying to post from a little-bitty box.

Other folks here at OSR swear by the other access methods… It’s all a matter of personal taste.

I say, if you like the email interface, go ahead and change your email address. We’ll all get used to it,

Peter

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Thanks, Peter. I think I’m going to go with your last recommendation.

mm