weihengc (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
What, are you posting to googlegroups with your browser?
If you post via your news server then you can use 'alternate' email
addresses in Thunderbird.
Go to "Manage identities" under account settings and create a munged
email address. Then you can switch to it by pulling down the 'From' window.
Better, set it to be the default for the news server you're using.

When I realized that I posted with my Google email account, I knew that
I've made a big mistake. Usually I did it with this Yahoo "address
guard" account so I could disable it if spams get bad.

However, Google Groups keep remembering my Google mail account (or I
kept forgetting to sign out after checking Google mails). That's why
such a mistake is made. It's likely to happen again unless I do
something like you suggested.

Isn't Thunderbird just an email client?

Can it be used as a newgroup manager? If not what do you recommend? I
usually read and post through Google Groups. This is a habit extended
from my Dejanews days. Though I also used News capability in Outlook
before. Looks like my 10+ years of Usenet skills need an update.


clay wrote:

whcguard-deja (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

Yes. I use it every day under Linux and OpenBSD. It is also available
for Windows 2k, XP. As you can see, my "From" address is bogus, and is
the default when i read news groups. The suggestion
made below about Thunderbird is correct.

Regards / JCH

whcguard-deja (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:
Thunderbird does a passable job as a newsreader for text groups. Not so
good for binary.

Go to Tools>Account settings. Below the left column that shows your
existing account(s) you'll see 'Add Account'. Pick add newsgroup and
fill in the blanks.
(Mozilla even has it's own server for support and such. news.mozilla.org)
Kind of nice to have (most) all your email accounts and newsservers
accessible in one screen.
It won't do some webmail accounts. I've managed to get Netscape webmail
to work but not yahoo.