Web-Based Email Accounts

Hi all,

As is stated here on a very regular basis, Hotmail is ridiculously unreliable
and Yahoo seems to be no better at all (I think it might actually be worse).

For the relaunch of Bohavia: The Next Generation, I have suggested to former
players that they play under anonymous identities until the finalists are
chosen and so they all need web-based accounts and one has asked me if I know
of a reliable one.

Has anyone any suggestions as to one that seems to work OK?

Many thanks for all your help in this matter.

Bye for now,


Nick

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On 3 Oct 2000, at 13:30, nick@foresight.cz wrote:

> Has anyone any suggestions as to one that seems to work OK?

The alternative would be to change your list's From: line.  I can kill 
the X-From which preserves the original, and you could have 
*everything* coming from "Comment" ... 
where "comment" is the text part of the original From line.
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Hi Karen,

That sounds like a very good plan to me.

Is that something that I can do myself?  Or is it something that you would
need to do?  Please bear in mind how totally clueless I am with these types of
things!

I only really need this to be in operation for around one month.  Once the
competition is over with, then each player's identity will be revealed.

Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter.

Bye for now,


Nick

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Subject: Re: LO: Web-Based Email Accounts


On 3 Oct 2000, at 13:30, nick@foresight.cz wrote:

> Has anyone any suggestions as to one that seems to work OK?

The alternative would be to change your list's From: line.  I can kill
the X-From which preserves the original, and you could have
*everything* coming from "Comment" ...
where "comment" is the text part of the original From line.
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On 4 Oct 2000, at 10:08, Nick Pendrell wrote:

> Is that something that I can do myself?  Or is it something that you would
> need to do?  Please bear in mind how totally clueless I am with these types of
> things!

Well, aside from removing the X-From which I needed to do (and 
have done), you just need to go to the usual listowner tools 
(http://www.phoenyx.net/tools/inimx) and select Nick+Group 
Address in the From box.  The users just need to go to 
http://www.phoenyx.net/register.html and change their Bohavia 
settings to have a Nickname field.  That should do it.
 
> I only really need this to be in operation for around one month.  Once the
> competition is over with, then each player's identity will be revealed.

Then you can just switch it back to Leave Unchanged, or 
Nick+Address.  The players can leave their character names in the 
Nickname field... that's what it's for.

If for whatever reason you need to know who originally sent an 
email, I can pull the incoming logs and tell you.  It might give the 
real email address in your status report, but I can't guarantee it.

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Hi Karen,

Thanks for your help with this.  I've tried it and it works!

Sorry for doubting that it would, but I guess I come from a family that
doesn't trust technology very much - my Mum has only recently stopped checking
that her calculator hasn't made a mistake by doing the calculations for
herself on a piece of paper!

I must admit that it took me a while to work out that 'Nick' refers to
'nickname' rather than 'Nick Pendrell'.

I did think that the Phoenyx was exceedingly clever to recognize each DM by
their first names!

I don't think that I shall need to know posters by their email addresses, but
if anyone starts getting silly, then it's good to know that there's a way that
I can check who it is.

Thanks again for all your help.

Bye for now,


Nick

Well, aside from removing the X-From which I needed to do (and
have done), you just need to go to the usual listowner tools
(http://www.phoenyx.net/tools/inimx) and select Nick+Group
Address in the From box.  The users just need to go to
http://www.phoenyx.net/register.html and change their Bohavia
settings to have a Nickname field.  That should do it.

> I only really need this to be in operation for around one month.  Once the
> competition is over with, then each player's identity will be revealed.

Then you can just switch it back to Leave Unchanged, or
Nick+Address.  The players can leave their character names in the
Nickname field... that's what it's for.

If for whatever reason you need to know who originally sent an
email, I can pull the incoming logs and tell you.  It might give the
real email address in your status report, but I can't guarantee it.

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On 6 Oct 2000, at 5:23, Nick Pendrell wrote:

> Sorry for doubting that it would, but I guess I come from a family that
> doesn't trust technology very much - my Mum has only recently stopped checking
> that her calculator hasn't made a mistake by doing the calculations for
> herself on a piece of paper!

Well, and fair enough; I have a habit of breaking older features while 
installing/modifying new ones.  But I know some of the other lists 
do this as a matter of course (although I don't really know why), so 
I knew it was working at present.
 
> I must admit that it took me a while to work out that 'Nick' refers to
> 'nickname' rather than 'Nick Pendrell'.

You know, I meant to mention this in my first message.
 
> I did think that the Phoenyx was exceedingly clever to recognize each DM by
> their first names!

Back in college, I was involved in a MasterLife Bible study... it's a 
fairly intensive course, and involves a lot of memorization.  The 
verses were on little punch-out cards.  About two thirds of the way 
into the semester, Kathy Jo Vogel was exceeding surprised to 
realize that *other* people's cards *also* were designated "KJV."

Anyway, just wait until you see the SQL version... it *will* know 
everyone by name.

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Hi Karen,

> I must admit that it took me a while to work out that 'Nick' refers to
> 'nickname' rather than 'Nick Pendrell'.

You know, I meant to mention this in my first message.

>>>Well now you know that you really have to spell out *everything* in order
to make sure I understand it.  However, I can tell you that any piece of
software that I manage to get working can officially be described as
'idiot-proof'!

Back in college, I was involved in a MasterLife Bible study... it's a
fairly intensive course, and involves a lot of memorization.  The
verses were on little punch-out cards.  About two thirds of the way
into the semester, Kathy Jo Vogel was exceeding surprised to
realize that *other* people's cards *also* were designated "KJV."

>>>So what did KJV really stand for?  Perhaps it's best if you don't tell me -
I know I'm never going to be fluent in 'programmer'.

Anyway, just wait until you see the SQL version... it *will* know
everyone by name.

>>>That sounds good - I just hope that it's *really* simple to understand.

Bye for now,



Nick

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On 7 Oct 2000, at 7:27, Nick Pendrell wrote:

>So what did KJV really stand for?  Perhaps it's best if you don't tell me -
> I know I'm never going to be fluent in 'programmer'.

"King James Version."  No programming involved.  (My initials at 
the time were KJB, but I did not think they'd made a typo on my 
verse cards.)
 
>That sounds good - I just hope that it's *really* simple to understand.

That's the point.

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