On 29.07.02 19:46, Jay Garcia Replied As Follows:

--- Original Message ---

> On 29.07.02 15:51, Brian Heinrich Replied As Follows:
> 
> --- Original Message ---
> 
>> On 29 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Michael D Richards sauntered in to 
>> netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 1. News won't allow me to create muliple accounts that have the same 
>>>> server.
>>>> I want to be able to organize groups from the same server by creating 
>>>> multiple accounts.
>>> 
>>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929
>>> 
>>> That's freakin' annoying.
>>> 
>>> I've had some luck getting around this with mail accounts by creating 
>>> them with dummy server names, then editing the prefs.js file. I don't 
>>> know if there are any other problems associated with doing this.
>> 
>> I think he was talking about NNTP or S/NNTP (/i.e./, having different sets 
>> of NGs from the same server accessible as different news account), not POP 
>> or IMAP.  You're talking about something very different (altho' 
>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929#c8 would seem to fit this 
>> situation).
>> 
>> You and flacco ought to get together, tho' I think he just wants multiple-
>> identity/alias support; 41929 seems to be something a bit different. :-P
>> 
>> /b.
>> 
> 
> May even be able to set this server up THREE times using the alias's
> 
> [secnews.netscape.com]
> Translated Name: ripley.aoltw.net
> IP Address: 204.29.187.156
> Alias: secnews.netscape.com
> Alias: secnews.aoltw.net
> 

Drat ... Meant SECNEWS, not THIS one ... :-[

Still can do:

[news.mozilla.org]
Translated Name: ripley.aoltw.net
IP Address: 204.29.187.156
Alias: news.mozilla.org
Alias: moznews.aoltw.net

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