[Pan-users] RE: RE: Access provider, email provider, and Pan

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:30:56 -0700, Travis wrote:

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>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:44:34 -0700, Travis wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> Hmmm .... And that works?? IOW, Pan requires *something*, but
>> it doesn't have to be valid? Hmmm ... I suppose I could then
>> put a transparently munged one in my .sig ....
> 
> Yes. It works with my news server.  My news server is Verizon.

Well I just tried to do what I think you're saying. 

I created a new posting profile, called html, with its own anti-html sig
file, and gave it "Beartooth (at) adelphia (dot) net" as my address.

Then I put that sig file at the bottom of a post, using the From: line
arrow, and hit Send. 

I got an error bos with only one button on it, saying Cancel. The log says
"No domain in email address," quoting "Beartooth (at) adelphia (dot) net"

I can't remember whether verizon requires authorization, but I know
adelphia does. Is that the problem? Or did I do something wrong? 

Do I have to put it into the sig file that the posting profile reads from,
instead of into the posting profile itself? 

Or is this maybe -- alas! -- a trick that gets past verizon's
authorization routine but not past Adelphia's? (Adelphia subcontracts news
to giganews; so the real authorization may be happening wholly or partly
there. I doubt adelphia, at least in my area, does anything whatever more
strictly or less badly than any other large ISP.)

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : Fedora Core 5 [etc]
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.