Subj : Need to know..
To   : All
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Mar 12 2017 09:12:42

Hello All,

A couple of questions maybe some of the long-time JamNNTPd users can provide answers to..

[Question/Situation #1]

Is there a way to post using multiple names on the same account? For example, I/we use aliases on some othernets, and rather than setting up a completely new account it would be nice to be able to switch between usernames easily.

Golded has such a feature where you can do something like so:

GROUP A
USERNAME Nicholas Boel
ENDGROUP

GROUP B
USERNAME MyNickname
ENDGROUP

I noticed you can use a comma in your jamnntpd.users file to separate names, but I believe that is only for receiving and possibly sending netmail, and further comments in that file seem to not allow for this as it only posts with the first user specified:

# When a user posts a message, the first realname is used as the from name
# unless it contains wildcards. If the first realname contains wildcards or
# if no realnames are supplied, the from name is taken from the From: header
# line of the posted message.

[Question/Situation #2]

Is there any way to sort or somewhat "fix" or work around the seriously broken threading in Fidonet?

At times I'll have to scroll back 100s of messages to find a broken thread with one reply to it. It would be nice if somehow you could combine all matching subjects into one thread, but since I've always heard the gripes about threading in Fidonet, I should probably assume that this isn't possible?

That said, It may just be easier to disable threading altogether and just read them as they're received. After using JamNNTPd for a bit now I'm realizing all the complaints about broken threading in Fidonet is not just a myth! Yikes!

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Regards,
Nick

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