Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 5:10, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > I've tried editing my pinerc repeatedly, it always seems to be reset
> > the next time I log in.
>
> One of the features of pine is that there can be several configuration
> files, including a system-wide one that contains settings which a user can
> override in ~/.pinerc, and a separate system-wide one which ~/.pinerc
> *won't* override. The intent is that a sysadmin can set defaults in the
> first (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf), and set fixed values in the
> second (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed) -- the sorts of things that
> users shouldn't meddle with, like the name of the server, the mail domain,
> the operating-dir (which restricts the part of the file structure users can
> access) or whether they're allowed to forge cancel messages. It sounds
> like your ISP has a somewhat overzealous sysadmin; perhaps they just copied
> every setting into pine.conf.fixed.
Actually, my ISP is a couple of young BCSs who are rather less than
competent as system administrators. After the Cablemodem is installed
I'll set my email account to forward things, and let the account die a
natural death at the end of summer when it's be up for renewal.
For instance, many weekends I can only access through the 14.4 lines,
the others answer, but the modem servers don't connect to the rest.
And this will last _all_ weekend, including both the Christmas and
New Year 3-day weekends. And they have never responded to an email in
comment.
I have offered my services _free_ on several occasions, just to get
their systems configured functionally. For instance, the newsfeed is
crap. For instance, if I go to comp.sys.tandy, I find a total of 15
(that's fifteen, not a typo) messages dated between last October and
last Wednesday. A quick glance at Dejanews would indicate that this
is not a high percentage of the traffic. Sampling shows this to be
the case across the Usenet structure. And while the newsfeed was
nothing spectacular before, the current condition has applied since
they switched from an NFS-mounted news directory to an nntp server.
Again, no response to comments. I will not miss this ISP.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
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Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 14:17:47 GMT